ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW) Competitors

US Solar Fund (LON:USF) and ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LON:LBOW) 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 institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of USF or LBOW?

91.4% of US Solar Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of US Solar Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.7% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor USF or LBOW?

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments received 74 more outperform votes than US Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave US Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
US Solar Fund	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Outperform Votes 75 63.56%	Underperform Votes 43 36.44%

Is USF or LBOW a better dividend stock?

US Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,492.5%. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.4%. US Solar Fund pays out -3,857.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays out -19.2% 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. US Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to USF or LBOW?

In the previous week, US Solar Fund had 2 more articles in the media than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for US Solar Fund and 0 mentions for ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. US Solar Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that US Solar Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
US Solar Fund	Neutral
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Neutral

Is USF or LBOW more profitable?

US Solar Fund has a net margin of 107.10% compared to ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' net margin of -564.92%. US Solar Fund's return on equity of -14.89% beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
US Solar Fund	107.10%	-14.89%	N/A
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	-564.92%	-43.80%	N/A

Which has better earnings and valuation, USF or LBOW?

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments has higher revenue and earnings than US Solar Fund. US Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments, 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
US Solar Fund	-£3.73B	-0.03	-£3.99B	-£0.13	-2.58
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	£4.33M	6.34	-£24.46M	-£20.86	-1.10

Summary

US Solar Fund beats ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.