TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (SMIF) Competitors

Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, SLPE or SMIF?

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Life Private Equity 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
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.46	N/A	£155.20	3.65
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.08	-1,072.50

Does the media refer more to SLPE or SMIF?

In the previous week, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund and 0 mentions for Standard Life Private Equity Trust. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Neutral
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of SLPE or SMIF?

13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SLPE or SMIF?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust received 49 more outperform votes than TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave Standard Life Private Equity Trust an outperform vote while only 68.46% of users gave TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Outperform Votes 138 69.70%	Underperform Votes 60 30.30%
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	Outperform Votes 89 68.46%	Underperform Votes 41 31.54%

Is SLPE or SMIF more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is SLPE or SMIF a better dividend stock?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% 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. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund beats Standard Life Private Equity Trust on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.