CT UK High Income Trust (CHIB) Competitors

Weiss Korea Opportunity (LON:WKOF) and CT UK High Income Trust (LON:CHIB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of WKOF or CHIB?

74.0% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of CT UK High Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of CT UK High Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in WKOF or CHIB?

Weiss Korea Opportunity received 69 more outperform votes than CT UK High Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Weiss Korea Opportunity	Outperform Votes 69 66.35%	Underperform Votes 35 33.65%
CT UK High Income Trust	N/A	N/A

Which has better valuation and earnings, WKOF or CHIB?

CT UK High Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Weiss Korea Opportunity. Weiss Korea Opportunity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CT UK High Income Trust, 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
Weiss Korea Opportunity	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.06	-2,200.00
CT UK High Income Trust	£13.28M	2.05	£11.22M	£0.10	895.00

Is WKOF or CHIB more profitable?

CT UK High Income Trust has a net margin of 84.52% compared to Weiss Korea Opportunity's net margin of 0.00%. CT UK High Income Trust's return on equity of 10.59% beat Weiss Korea Opportunity's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Weiss Korea Opportunity	N/A	N/A	N/A
CT UK High Income Trust	84.52%	10.59%	6.32%

Does the media prefer WKOF or CHIB?

In the previous week, CT UK High Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Weiss Korea Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for CT UK High Income Trust and 0 mentions for Weiss Korea Opportunity. CT UK High Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Weiss Korea Opportunity's score of 0.00 indicating that CT UK High Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Weiss Korea Opportunity	Neutral
CT UK High Income Trust	Very Positive

Is WKOF or CHIB a better dividend stock?

Weiss Korea Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. CT UK High Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays out -8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CT UK High Income Trust pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

CT UK High Income Trust beats Weiss Korea Opportunity on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.