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(As of 11/4/2024 ET)

INV vs. CIP, DNE, PGIT, CHIB, ADAM, VENC, ELTA, LBOW, CLP, and VEN

Should you be buying Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Investment include CIP Merchant Capital (CIP), Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust (DNE), Premier Global Infrastructure Trust PLC (PGIT.L) (PGIT), CT UK High Income Trust (CHIB), Jade Road Investments (ADAM), Ventus VCT C (VENC), Electra Private Equity (ELTA), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW), Clear Leisure (CLP), and Ventus VCT (VEN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Investment vs.

CIP Merchant Capital (LON:CIP) and Investment (LON:INV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than CIP Merchant Capital. CIP Merchant Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
CIP Merchant Capital£8.87M0.00N/A£13.70N/A
Investment£1.21M5.70£1.01M£0.49765.31

In the previous week, Investment had 24 more articles in the media than CIP Merchant Capital. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Investment and 1 mentions for CIP Merchant Capital. Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.22 beat CIP Merchant Capital's score of 0.18 indicating that Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
CIP Merchant Capital
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Investment
3 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Investment has a net margin of 83.35% compared to CIP Merchant Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Investment's return on equity of 8.56% beat CIP Merchant Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
CIP Merchant CapitalN/A N/A N/A
Investment 83.35%8.56%5.25%

Investment received 65 more outperform votes than CIP Merchant Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.23% of users gave CIP Merchant Capital an outperform vote while only 65.49% of users gave Investment an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
CIP Merchant CapitalOutperform Votes
9
69.23%
Underperform Votes
4
30.77%
InvestmentOutperform Votes
74
65.49%
Underperform Votes
39
34.51%

Given CIP Merchant Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe CIP Merchant Capital is more favorable than Investment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
CIP Merchant Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Investment
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

5.1% of Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 58.2% of Investment 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.

Summary

Investment beats CIP Merchant Capital on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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INV vs. The Competition

MetricInvestmentAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£6.90M£780.45M£3.17B£1.40B
Dividend Yield1.30%13.21%4.61%11.77%
P/E Ratio765.31751.71430.141,584.23
Price / Sales5.7013,569.582,967.58214,277.95
Price / Cash19.2353.9448.2626.96
Price / Book0.941.701.442.88
Net Income£1.01M£57.25M£395.64M£155.21M
7 Day Performance-0.53%-0.26%-0.56%0.54%
1 Month Performance1.35%-1.17%-0.73%-0.39%
1 Year Performance32.51%11.96%15.99%103.11%

Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
INV
Investment
N/AGBX 375
flat
N/A+32.6%£6.90M£1.21M765.31N/A
CIP
CIP Merchant Capital
N/AGBX 50
+25.0%
N/AN/A£27.50M£8.87M3.65N/AGap Down
DNE
Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust
N/AGBX 497.50
+0.6%
N/A-7.5%£27.36M£2M1,776.79N/ANews Coverage
PGIT
Premier Global Infrastructure Trust PLC (PGIT.L)
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£26.23M£-2,538,000.00-3.56N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
CHIB
CT UK High Income Trust
N/AGBX 85.50
flat
N/AN/A£26.04M£13.28M855.00N/ADividend Announcement
ADAM
Jade Road Investments
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.17MN/A-7.21N/A
VENC
Ventus VCT C
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.00M£8.35M3.91N/AGap Down
ELTA
Electra Private Equity
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£24.87M£57.60M0.451
LBOW
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments
N/AGBX 20.05
+2.0%
N/A-12.7%£24.32MN/A401.00N/AGap Up
CLP
Clear Leisure
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£24.23M£39,000.00-13.504Positive News
Gap Up
VEN
Ventus VCT
N/AN/AN/A+0.0%£23.81M£9.80M3.16450Gap Up
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:INV) was last updated on 11/5/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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