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Diverse Income Trust (DIVI) Competitors

GBX 100.80 -0.20 (-0.20%)
As of 08/8/2025 11:49 AM Eastern

DIVI vs. TMPL, ICGT, IEM, RICA, CGT, SAIN, MUT, JEO, APEO, and ESCT

Should you be buying Diverse Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diverse Income Trust include Temple Bar (TMPL), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Murray Income Trust (MUT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), and The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Diverse Income Trust vs. Its Competitors

Temple Bar (LON:TMPL) and Diverse Income Trust (LON:DIVI) 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 dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and media sentiment.

Temple Bar has higher revenue and earnings than Diverse Income Trust. Diverse Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Temple Bar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Temple Bar£157.64M6.06£154.90M£53.876.20
Diverse Income TrustN/AN/AN/A-£0.18-559.99

In the previous week, Temple Bar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Diverse Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Temple Bar Neutral
Diverse Income Trust Neutral

Temple Bar pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Diverse Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Temple Bar pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diverse Income Trust pays out -2,222.2% 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. Diverse Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

34.5% of Temple Bar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Temple Bar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Temple Bar has a net margin of 98.26% compared to Diverse Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Temple Bar's return on equity of 20.62% beat Diverse Income Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Temple Bar98.26% 20.62% 7.08%
Diverse Income Trust N/A 15.25%N/A

Summary

Temple Bar beats Diverse Income Trust on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DIVI and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DIVI vs. The Competition

MetricDiverse Income TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£237.80M£1.29B£6.36B£3.07B
Dividend Yield0.05%4.40%4.18%5.03%
P/E Ratio-559.9922.5414.30170.60
Price / SalesN/A2,547.711,845.83303,757.13
Price / CashN/A60.7049.0727.96
Price / BookN/A1.442.124.52
Net IncomeN/A£265.04M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-0.69%0.74%1.73%1.23%
1 Month Performance-4.46%0.42%2.20%3.22%
1 Year PerformanceN/A7.68%27.45%60.28%

Diverse Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DIVI
Diverse Income Trust
N/AGBX 100.80
-0.2%
N/AN/A£237.80MN/A-559.99N/A
TMPL
Temple Bar
N/AGBX 331.50
+0.2%
N/A+25.2%£948.36M£157.64M6.15N/A
ICGT
ICG Enterprise Trust
N/AGBX 1,452
-1.0%
N/A+13.3%£938.41M£55.63M28.99N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 397
flat
N/A+1.8%£921.63M£1.35M-98.75N/ANews Coverage
Earnings Report
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 285
+0.2%
N/A-0.9%£917.06M£16.91M103.67N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,870
-0.1%
N/A+2.1%£905.70M£17.92M19.80N/ANews Coverage
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 511.47
+0.3%
N/A+1.4%£894.34M£75.38M10.26N/APositive News
Earnings Report
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 891
-0.1%
N/A+2.8%£890.18M£97.96M9.82147,000Dividend Cut
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M-£62.33M-12.93N/A
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 218
+0.5%
N/A+22.5%£859.87M£96.24M10.28305Positive News

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