WTAN vs. SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and STJ
Should you be buying Witan Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Witan Investment Trust include Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), and St. James's Place (STJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroders (LON:SDRC) and Witan Investment Trust (LON:WTAN) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
Schroders received 41 more outperform votes than Witan Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.68% of users gave Schroders an outperform vote while only 67.63% of users gave Witan Investment Trust an outperform vote.
6.6% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Witan Investment Trust has a net margin of 87.27% compared to Witan Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Schroders' return on equity of 11.70% beat Witan Investment Trust's return on equity.
Schroders pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Witan Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Schroders pays out 60.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
In the previous week, Schroders had 1 more articles in the media than Witan Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Schroders and 0 mentions for Witan Investment Trust. Witan Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Schroders'average media sentiment score.
Witan Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schroders. Witan Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroders, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Schroders and Witan Investment Trust tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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