Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG) Competitors

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (LON:PHI) and Albion Technology & Gen VCT (LON:AATG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, PHI or AATG?

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Albion Technology & Gen VCT. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albion Technology & Gen VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust	£42.42M	12.62	£26.91M	£0.30	1,970.00
Albion Technology & Gen VCT	£7.68M	16.86	£4.35M	£0.02	3,400.00

Is PHI or AATG a better dividend stock?

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Albion Technology & Gen VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays out 1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Albion Technology & Gen VCT pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is PHI or AATG more profitable?

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has a net margin of 63.44% compared to Albion Technology & Gen VCT's net margin of 56.61%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's return on equity of 4.55% beat Albion Technology & Gen VCT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust	63.44%	4.55%	3.98%
Albion Technology & Gen VCT	56.61%	3.50%	2.17%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in PHI or AATG?

23.1% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Albion Technology & Gen VCT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer PHI or AATG?

In the previous week, Pacific Horizon Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Albion Technology & Gen VCT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pacific Horizon Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Albion Technology & Gen VCT. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Albion Technology & Gen VCT's score of 0.67 indicating that Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Albion Technology & Gen VCT	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PHI or AATG?

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust received 40 more outperform votes than Albion Technology & Gen VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.81% of users gave Pacific Horizon Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 56.92% of users gave Albion Technology & Gen VCT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 77 65.81%	Underperform Votes 40 34.19%
Albion Technology & Gen VCT	Outperform Votes 37 56.92%	Underperform Votes 28 43.08%

Summary

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust beats Albion Technology & Gen VCT on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.