ARR vs. BGSC, APAX, JFJ, ESCT, NBPE, VOF, SYNC, SEIT, SLS, and BRSC
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), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), Syncona (SYNC), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), and BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Aurora Investment Trust (LON:ARR) and BMO Global Smaller Companies (LON:BGSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
66.8% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Aurora Investment Trust has a net margin of 93.64% compared to BMO Global Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Aurora Investment Trust's return on equity of 29.37% beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' return on equity.
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.
Aurora Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Aurora Investment Trust pays out 428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, BMO Global Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Aurora Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BMO Global Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for Aurora Investment Trust. BMO Global Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Aurora Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BMO Global Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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