OOA vs. NVT, MVCT, PU13, IGV, INOV, IVPU, BRLA, ROOF, NTV, and ATS
Should you be buying Octopus AIM VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus AIM VCT include Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT), Puma VCT 13 (PU13), Income & Growth VCT (IGV), Schroders Capital Global Innov Trust (INOV), Invesco Select UK Equity (IVPU), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA), Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), and Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Northern Venture Trust (LON:NVT) and Octopus AIM VCT (LON:OOA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
0.1% of Northern Venture Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.2% of Northern Venture Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Octopus AIM VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Octopus AIM VCT's return on equity of -9.62% beat Northern Venture Trust's return on equity.
Northern Venture Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus AIM VCT. Northern Venture Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Octopus AIM VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northern Venture Trust has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus AIM VCT has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Octopus AIM VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern Venture Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Northern Venture Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Octopus AIM VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Northern Venture Trust pays out -4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Octopus AIM VCT pays out -2,500.0% 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.
Octopus AIM VCT received 31 more outperform votes than Northern Venture Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.57% of users gave Octopus AIM VCT an outperform vote while only 67.35% of users gave Northern Venture Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Northern Venture Trust beats Octopus AIM VCT on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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