KPC vs. IPU, CVCG, DORE, VSL, DUKE, BGCG, MERC, PGOO, AEI, and MAJE
Should you be buying Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust include Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU), CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG), Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL), Duke Capital (DUKE), Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), and Majedie Investments (MAJE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (LON:KPC) and Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (LON:IPU) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a net margin of 83.22% compared to Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller's net margin of 0.00%. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's return on equity of 6.74% beat Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller's return on equity.
41.1% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller. Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust and Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.86 beat Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller's score of 0.00 indicating that Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller pays out -2,400.0% 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. Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller received 86 more outperform votes than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust beats Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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