Diverse Income Trust (DIVI) Competitors

Diverse Income Trust (LON:DIVI) and Law Debenture (LON:LWDB) 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, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, DIVI or LWDB?

Law Debenture has higher revenue and earnings than Diverse Income Trust. Diverse Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Law Debenture, 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
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.18	-508.89
Law Debenture	£201.31M	5.70	£140.61M	£1.08	809.26

Is DIVI or LWDB more profitable?

Law Debenture has a net margin of 69.85% compared to Diverse Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Law Debenture's return on equity of 16.30% beat Diverse Income Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
Law Debenture	69.85%	16.30%	8.76%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DIVI or LWDB?

Diverse Income Trust received 44 more outperform votes than Law Debenture when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.96% of users gave Diverse Income Trust an outperform vote while only 64.75% of users gave Law Debenture an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Diverse Income Trust	Outperform Votes 123 67.96%	Underperform Votes 58 32.04%
Law Debenture	Outperform Votes 79 64.75%	Underperform Votes 43 35.25%

Does the media favor DIVI or LWDB?

In the previous week, Law Debenture had 1 more articles in the media than Diverse Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Law Debenture and 0 mentions for Diverse Income Trust. Diverse Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Law Debenture'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Diverse Income Trust	Neutral
Law Debenture	Neutral

Do analysts recommend DIVI or LWDB?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diverse Income Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Law Debenture	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals believe in DIVI or LWDB?

53.9% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Law Debenture shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Law Debenture shares are held 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.

Is DIVI or LWDB a better dividend stock?

Diverse Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Law Debenture pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. Diverse Income Trust pays out -2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Law Debenture pays out 2,963.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diverse Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Law Debenture beats Diverse Income Trust on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.