OOA vs. FSG, TAM, UEM, ANII, JEMI, HEFT, FSFL, JUGI, JCH, and BHIU
Should you be buying Octopus AIM VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus AIM VCT include Foresight Group (FSG), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (UEM), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Foresight Solar (FSFL), JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH), and BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus AIM VCT vs.
Octopus AIM VCT (LON:OOA) and Foresight Group (LON:FSG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Foresight Group had 2 more articles in the media than Octopus AIM VCT. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Foresight Group and 0 mentions for Octopus AIM VCT. Foresight Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Octopus AIM VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Foresight Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Octopus AIM VCT has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foresight Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Octopus AIM VCT received 61 more outperform votes than Foresight Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Foresight Group an outperform vote while only 69.57% of users gave Octopus AIM VCT an outperform vote.
Foresight Group has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus AIM VCT. Octopus AIM VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
42.8% of Foresight Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Octopus AIM VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 35.3% of Foresight Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Group has a consensus target price of GBX 580, suggesting a potential upside of 53.85%. Given Foresight Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Foresight Group is more favorable than Octopus AIM VCT.
Foresight Group has a net margin of 18.70% compared to Octopus AIM VCT's net margin of 0.00%. Foresight Group's return on equity of 31.88% beat Octopus AIM VCT's return on equity.
Octopus AIM VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Foresight Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 31 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Octopus AIM VCT pays out -2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Foresight Group pays out 14,090.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Octopus AIM VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Foresight Group beats Octopus AIM VCT on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:OOA) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
