WTAN vs. RAT, FEV, MYI, PIN, QLT, PNL, JTC, HVPE, TEM, and AJB
Should you be buying Witan Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Witan Investment Trust include Rathbones Group (RAT), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Murray International (MYI), Pantheon International (PIN), Quilter (QLT), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), JTC (JTC), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), and AJ Bell (AJB). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rathbones Group (LON:RAT) and Witan Investment Trust (LON:WTAN) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Rathbones Group has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Witan Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Witan Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rathbones Group. Witan Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rathbones Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
53.1% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Witan Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.6% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Witan Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Rathbones Group had 3 more articles in the media than Witan Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Rathbones Group and 2 mentions for Witan Investment Trust. Witan Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Rathbones Group's score of 0.41 indicating that Rathbones Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rathbones Group received 262 more outperform votes than Witan Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave Witan Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 63.46% of users gave Rathbones Group an outperform vote.
Rathbones Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,520, suggesting a potential downside of 13.93%. Given Witan Investment Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Rathbones Group is more favorable than Witan Investment Trust.
Rathbones Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 87 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Witan Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Rathbones Group pays out 17,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Witan Investment Trust pays out 2,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Witan Investment Trust has a net margin of 87.27% compared to Witan Investment Trust's net margin of 5.55%. Rathbones Group's return on equity of 11.70% beat Witan Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Rathbones Group beats Witan Investment Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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