CYN vs. REC, NTN, BSC, MGCI, MAJE, VSL, AMAT, OOA, AATG, and WKOF
Should you be buying CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income include Record (REC), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), M&G Credit Income Investment (MGCI), Majedie Investments (MAJE), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), Octopus AIM VCT (OOA), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), and Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Record (LON:REC) and CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (LON:CYN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability and dividends.
18.9% of Record shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.5% of CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.1% of Record shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income shares are owned 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.
Record has higher revenue and earnings than CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Record, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Record received 96 more outperform votes than CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.15% of users gave Record an outperform vote while only 64.66% of users gave CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income an outperform vote.
Record pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Record pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Record has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Record's net margin of 0.00%. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income's return on equity of 34.94% beat Record's return on equity.
Record has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Record had 91 more articles in the media than CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income. MarketBeat recorded 94 mentions for Record and 3 mentions for CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income. Record's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income's score of 0.10 indicating that CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Record beats CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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