OAP3 vs. RAT, BRW, WTAN, MYI, PIN, FGT, SNN, JTC, BNKR, and BHMG
Should you be buying Octopus Apollo VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus Apollo VCT include Rathbones Group (RAT), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Murray International (MYI), Pantheon International (PIN), Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), Sanne Group (SNN), JTC (JTC), The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR), and BH Macro GBP (BHMG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rathbones Group (LON:RAT) and Octopus Apollo VCT (LON:OAP3) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Rathbones Group had 1 more articles in the media than Octopus Apollo VCT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Rathbones Group and 1 mentions for Octopus Apollo VCT. Rathbones Group's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Octopus Apollo VCT's score of 0.33 indicating that Octopus Apollo VCT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
49.2% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.9% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Octopus Apollo VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Rathbones Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 87 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Octopus Apollo VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. 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. Octopus Apollo VCT pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Octopus Apollo VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Octopus Apollo VCT has a net margin of 61.90% compared to Octopus Apollo VCT's net margin of 5.55%. Rathbones Group's return on equity of 8.33% beat Octopus Apollo VCT's return on equity.
Rathbones Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus Apollo VCT has a beta of -0.09, meaning that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rathbones Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,520, suggesting a potential downside of 12.04%. Given Octopus Apollo VCT's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Rathbones Group is more favorable than Octopus Apollo VCT.
Rathbones Group has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Apollo VCT. Octopus Apollo VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rathbones Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rathbones Group received 315 more outperform votes than Octopus Apollo VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Octopus Apollo VCT an outperform vote while only 63.46% of users gave Rathbones Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Rathbones Group beats Octopus Apollo VCT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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