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Aurora Investment Trust (ARR) Competitors

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GBX 234 +3.00 (+1.30%)
As of 04/17/2025 12:29 PM Eastern

ARR vs. BGSC, PRSR, GROW, DX, MGP, PINE, WPC, SOHO, ADVT, and LMI

Should you be buying Aurora Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Investment Trust include BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Prs Reit (PRSR), Molten Ventures (GROW), DX (Group) (DX), Medica Group (MGP), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L) (WPC), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), AdvancedAdvT (ADVT), and Lonmin (LMI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.

Aurora Investment Trust vs.

Aurora Investment Trust (LON:ARR) and BMO Global Smaller Companies (LON:BGSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Aurora Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Aurora Investment Trust pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

66.8% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by 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.

Aurora Investment Trust has a net margin of 90.50% compared to BMO Global Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Aurora Investment Trust's return on equity of 16.37% beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aurora Investment Trust90.50% 16.37% 18.36%
BMO Global Smaller Companies N/A N/A N/A

Aurora Investment Trust received 86 more outperform votes than BMO Global Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.63% of users gave Aurora Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 68.18% of users gave BMO Global Smaller Companies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Aurora Investment TrustOutperform Votes
101
70.63%
Underperform Votes
42
29.37%
BMO Global Smaller CompaniesOutperform Votes
15
68.18%
Underperform Votes
7
31.82%

Aurora Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BMO Global Smaller Companies. BMO Global Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Investment Trust£55.59M4.76£50.31M£45.045.20
BMO Global Smaller Companies£303.85M0.00N/A£50.70N/A

In the previous week, Aurora Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than BMO Global Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Aurora Investment Trust and 0 mentions for BMO Global Smaller Companies. Aurora Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Aurora Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Aurora Investment Trust Very Positive
BMO Global Smaller Companies Neutral

Summary

Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ARR vs. The Competition

MetricAurora Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£264.72M£1.04B£3.63B£2.48B
Dividend Yield2.74%4.44%4.20%4.96%
P/E Ratio5.2024.0814.01129.75
Price / Sales4.762,224.361,657.54232,042.22
Price / Cash27.1160.9450.1928.07
Price / Book0.871.093.334.43
Net Income£50.31M£260.34M£1.23B£5.83B
7 Day Performance5.88%2.64%2.00%3.01%
1 Month Performance-2.52%0.63%0.09%-1.06%
1 Year Performance-2.09%1.56%9.69%102.51%

Aurora Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ARR
Aurora Investment Trust
N/AGBX 234
+1.3%
N/A-1.8%£264.72M£55.59M5.20N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A
PRSR
Prs Reit
2.5137 of 5 stars
GBX 106
-3.1%
GBX 120
+13.2%
+49.5%£580.15M£58.11M6.192
GROW
Molten Ventures
2.7186 of 5 stars
GBX 232.40
-2.8%
GBX 580
+149.6%
+16.1%£432.51M£9.10M-13.0020
DX
DX (Group)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£306.77M£471.20M1,185.0020News Coverage
MGP
Medica Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£259.85M£76.98M3,516.671,212
PINE
Pinewood Technologies Group
N/AGBX 300
-2.9%
GBX 590
+96.7%
+699.0%£249.70M£26.97M5.495,334
WPC
Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£242.69M£6.74M69.65190
SOHO
Triple Point Social Housing REIT
N/AGBX 60.60
-1.0%
N/A+13.1%£241.67M£41.36M9.4110News Coverage
ADVT
AdvancedAdvT
N/AGBX 139.50
-0.4%
N/A+5.9%£221.53MN/A154.70209
LMI
Lonmin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£213.79M£1.34B5.113,066

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This page (LON:ARR) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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