BSC vs. OTV2, P2P, FEML, EWI, SCAM, PCFT, SCIN, JEDT, MERI, and SYNC
Should you be buying British Smaller Companies VCT2 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Smaller Companies VCT2 include Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), P2P Global Investments (P2P), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), Scottish American Investment (SCAM), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), Chrysalis Investments (MERI), and Syncona (SYNC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 vs.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 (LON:BSC) and Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Octopus Titan VCT has a net margin of 117.66% compared to British Smaller Companies VCT2's net margin of 63.40%. British Smaller Companies VCT2's return on equity of 4.00% beat Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 and Octopus Titan VCT both received 29 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 67.44% of users gave Octopus Titan VCT an outperform vote while only 65.91% of users gave British Smaller Companies VCT2 an outperform vote.
0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of British Smaller Companies VCT2 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. British Smaller Companies VCT2 pays out 176.2% 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 Titan VCT pays out -35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 has a beta of -0.01, suggesting that its share price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Octopus Titan VCT had 3 more articles in the media than British Smaller Companies VCT2. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Octopus Titan VCT and 1 mentions for British Smaller Companies VCT2. British Smaller Companies VCT2's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Octopus Titan VCT's score of 0.02 indicating that British Smaller Companies VCT2 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
British Smaller Companies VCT2 has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Smaller Companies VCT2, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
British Smaller Companies VCT2 beats Octopus Titan VCT on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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