RIII vs. POLR, JPGI, CGI, FSFL, ATR, GHE, PAC, BHGG, PCGH, and NAIT
Should you be buying Rights & Issues Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rights & Issues Investment Trust include Polar Capital (POLR), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR), Gresham House (GHE), Pacific Assets (PAC), BH Global (BHGG), Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), and North American Income Trust (NAIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust vs.
Polar Capital (LON:POLR) and Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Polar Capital received 291 more outperform votes than Rights & Issues Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.92% of users gave Rights & Issues Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 65.53% of users gave Polar Capital an outperform vote.
Polar Capital currently has a consensus price target of GBX 542.50, suggesting a potential upside of 3.93%. Given Polar Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Polar Capital is more favorable than Rights & Issues Investment Trust.
Polar Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Polar Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rights & Issues Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Polar Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Polar Capital pays out 10,952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 7,049.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
51.1% of Polar Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.0% of Polar Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Polar Capital has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 74.94% compared to Polar Capital's net margin of 20.68%. Polar Capital's return on equity of 29.27% beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Polar Capital had 6 more articles in the media than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Polar Capital and 0 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Polar Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's score of -0.40 indicating that Polar Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Polar Capital beats Rights & Issues Investment Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RIII) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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