Northern Venture Trust (NVT) Competitors

Mattioli Woods (LON:MTW) and Northern Venture Trust (LON:NVT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MTW or NVT?

Mattioli Woods received 197 more outperform votes than Northern Venture Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.35% of users gave Northern Venture Trust an outperform vote while only 65.16% of users gave Mattioli Woods an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Mattioli Woods	Outperform Votes 230 65.16%	Underperform Votes 123 34.84%
Northern Venture Trust	Outperform Votes 33 67.35%	Underperform Votes 16 32.65%

Do analysts prefer MTW or NVT?

Mattioli Woods currently has a consensus price target of GBX 872.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.79%. Given Mattioli Woods' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Mattioli Woods is more favorable than Northern Venture Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mattioli Woods	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Northern Venture Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, MTW or NVT?

Mattioli Woods has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Northern Venture Trust has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of MTW or NVT?

55.3% of Mattioli Woods shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Northern Venture Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of Mattioli Woods shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 52.6% of Northern Venture Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is MTW or NVT a better dividend stock?

Mattioli Woods pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Northern Venture Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Mattioli Woods pays out 14,210.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Northern Venture Trust pays out 15,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is MTW or NVT more profitable?

Northern Venture Trust has a net margin of 86.87% compared to Mattioli Woods' net margin of 8.59%. Mattioli Woods' return on equity of 4.38% beat Northern Venture Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mattioli Woods	8.59%	4.38%	4.42%
Northern Venture Trust	86.87%	2.96%	0.57%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, MTW or NVT?

Mattioli Woods has higher revenue and earnings than Northern Venture Trust. Northern Venture Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mattioli Woods, 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
Mattioli Woods	£115.40M	3.74	£9.91M	£0.19	4,221.05
Northern Venture Trust	£3.70M	29.32	£3.22M	£0.02	2,700.00

Does the media favor MTW or NVT?

In the previous week, Mattioli Woods and Mattioli Woods both had 1 articles in the media. Northern Venture Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Mattioli Woods' score of 0.59 indicating that Northern Venture Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Mattioli Woods	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Northern Venture Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Mattioli Woods beats Northern Venture Trust on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.