LMS Capital (LMS) Competitors

LMS Capital (LON:LMS) and Acorn Income Fund (LON:AIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, LMS or AIF?

Acorn Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than LMS Capital. LMS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Acorn Income Fund, 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
LMS Capital	-£5.30M	-2.76	-£7.43M	-£0.09	-201.67
Acorn Income Fund	£25.67M	2.26	N/A	£145.40	2.53

Do analysts recommend LMS or AIF?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LMS Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Acorn Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LMS or AIF?

Acorn Income Fund received 16 more outperform votes than LMS Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.31% of users gave LMS Capital an outperform vote while only 67.19% of users gave Acorn Income Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
LMS Capital	Outperform Votes 70 69.31%	Underperform Votes 31 30.69%
Acorn Income Fund	Outperform Votes 86 67.19%	Underperform Votes 42 32.81%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in LMS or AIF?

31.3% of LMS Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 40.6% of LMS Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media favor LMS or AIF?

In the previous week, LMS Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Acorn Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
LMS Capital	Neutral
Acorn Income Fund	Neutral

Is LMS or AIF more profitable?

Acorn Income Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat LMS Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LMS Capital	N/A	-18.33%	-7.08%
Acorn Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is LMS or AIF a better dividend stock?

LMS Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Acorn Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. LMS Capital pays out -1,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Acorn Income Fund pays out 0.2% 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. LMS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Acorn Income Fund beats LMS Capital on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.