SMIF vs. APAX, TMPL, ICGT, IEM, RICA, CGT, SAIN, MUT, JEO, and APEO
Should you be buying TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund include Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Temple Bar (TMPL), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Murray Income Trust (MUT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
Apax Global Alpha (LON:APAX) and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
Apax Global Alpha pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Apax Global Alpha pays out 1,866.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
16.5% of Apax Global Alpha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 14.4% of Apax Global Alpha shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Apax Global Alpha and Apax Global Alpha both had 2 articles in the media. Apax Global Alpha's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Apax Global Alpha has a net margin of 45.55% compared to TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's return on equity of 19.68% beat Apax Global Alpha's return on equity.
Apax Global Alpha has higher revenue and earnings than TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apax Global Alpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Apax Global Alpha beats TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund on 7 of the 10 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:SMIF) was last updated on 8/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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