NTV vs. RIII, ATS, NTN, REC, AADV, WKOF, BRLA, AAEV, AATG, and IVPU
Should you be buying Northern 2 VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Northern 2 VCT include Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Record (REC), Albion Development VCT (AADV), Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA), Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), and Invesco Select UK Equity (IVPU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) and Northern 2 VCT (LON:NTV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 74.94% compared to Rights & Issues Investment Trust's net margin of 54.70%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity of 2.83% beat Northern 2 VCT's return on equity.
18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Northern 2 VCT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern 2 VCT has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Northern 2 VCT received 19 more outperform votes than Rights & Issues Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.92% of users gave Rights & Issues Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 63.95% of users gave Northern 2 VCT an outperform vote.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Northern 2 VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 7,049.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northern 2 VCT pays out 15,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Northern 2 VCT. Northern 2 VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rights & Issues Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 17 more articles in the media than Northern 2 VCT. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Northern 2 VCT. Northern 2 VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Rights & Issues Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Rights & Issues Investment Trust beats Northern 2 VCT on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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