Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2) Competitors

HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Is HGT or OTV2 more profitable?

Octopus Titan VCT has a net margin of 117.66% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 91.03%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 11.93% beat Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HgCapital Trust	91.03%	11.93%	6.88%
Octopus Titan VCT	117.66%	-18.89%	-14.38%

Which has more volatility & risk, HGT or OTV2?

HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in HGT or OTV2?

41.7% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by company 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.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, HGT or OTV2?

HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, 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
HgCapital Trust	£312.64M	7.48	£284.58M	£60.49	8.33
Octopus Titan VCT	-£147.88M	-3.93	-£173.99M	-£11.30	-3.23

Is HGT or OTV2 a better dividend stock?

HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. HgCapital Trust pays out 11.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Octopus Titan VCT pays out -35.4% 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. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HGT or OTV2?

HgCapital Trust received 81 more outperform votes than Octopus Titan VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.44% of users gave Octopus Titan VCT an outperform vote while only 62.15% of users gave HgCapital Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HgCapital Trust	Outperform Votes 110 62.15%	Underperform Votes 67 37.85%
Octopus Titan VCT	Outperform Votes 29 67.44%	Underperform Votes 14 32.56%

Does the media refer more to HGT or OTV2?

In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Octopus Titan VCT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 0 mentions for Octopus Titan VCT. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.64 beat Octopus Titan VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
HgCapital Trust	Very Positive
Octopus Titan VCT	Neutral

Summary

HgCapital Trust beats Octopus Titan VCT on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.