Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO) Competitors

Chenavari Toro Income Fund (LON:TORO) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Does the media prefer TORO or PAC?

In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 3 more articles in the media than Chenavari Toro Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pacific Assets and 0 mentions for Chenavari Toro Income Fund. Pacific Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Chenavari Toro Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Assets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	Neutral
Pacific Assets	Positive

Is TORO or PAC a better dividend stock?

Chenavari Toro Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 960.0%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Chenavari Toro Income Fund pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pacific Assets pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Chenavari Toro Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TORO or PAC?

Pacific Assets received 54 more outperform votes than Chenavari Toro Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote while only 69.88% of users gave Chenavari Toro Income Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	Outperform Votes 58 69.88%	Underperform Votes 25 30.12%
Pacific Assets	Outperform Votes 112 70.00%	Underperform Votes 48 30.00%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, TORO or PAC?

Pacific Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Chenavari Toro Income Fund. Chenavari Toro Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.03	-20.83
Pacific Assets	£60.20M	7.02	£42.65M	£35.41	9.91

Is TORO or PAC more profitable?

Pacific Assets has a net margin of 70.84% compared to Chenavari Toro Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Chenavari Toro Income Fund's return on equity of 12.01% beat Pacific Assets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	N/A	12.01%	N/A
Pacific Assets	70.84%	8.79%	0.07%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of TORO or PAC?

53.9% of Chenavari Toro Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.6% of Pacific Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Chenavari Toro Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Pacific Assets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Pacific Assets beats Chenavari Toro Income Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.