WKOF vs. RIII, ATS, AAEV, OOA, BRLA, PMI, NTN, AADV, CYN, and REC
Should you be buying Weiss Korea Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Weiss Korea Opportunity include Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Octopus AIM VCT (OOA), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA), Premier Miton Group (PMI), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Albion Development VCT (AADV), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN), and Record (REC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) and Weiss Korea Opportunity (LON:WKOF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 74.94% compared to Rights & Issues Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Weiss Korea Opportunity's return on equity of 2.64% beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 13 more articles in the media than Weiss Korea Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 2 mentions for Weiss Korea Opportunity. Weiss Korea Opportunity's average media sentiment score of -0.01 beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's score of -0.22 indicating that Rights & Issues Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Weiss Korea Opportunity. Weiss Korea Opportunity 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.
18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. 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. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays out -8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Weiss Korea Opportunity is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Weiss Korea Opportunity received 33 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 66.35% of users gave Weiss Korea Opportunity an outperform vote.
Summary
Rights & Issues Investment Trust beats Weiss Korea Opportunity on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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