Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO) Competitors

Tufton Oceanic Assets (LON:SHIP) and Chenavari Toro Income Fund (LON:TORO) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SHIP or TORO?

Chenavari Toro Income Fund received 46 more outperform votes than Tufton Oceanic Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Tufton Oceanic Assets an outperform vote while only 69.88% of users gave Chenavari Toro Income Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Tufton Oceanic Assets	Outperform Votes 12 70.59%	Underperform Votes 5 29.41%
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	Outperform Votes 58 69.88%	Underperform Votes 25 30.12%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, SHIP or TORO?

Tufton Oceanic Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Chenavari Toro Income Fund. Chenavari Toro Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tufton Oceanic Assets, 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
Tufton Oceanic Assets	£39.75M	0.09	£35.30M	£0.12	10.25
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.03	-17.33

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of SHIP or TORO?

78.7% of Tufton Oceanic Assets shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of Chenavari Toro Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Tufton Oceanic Assets shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Chenavari Toro Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is SHIP or TORO more profitable?

Tufton Oceanic Assets has a net margin of 88.80% compared to Chenavari Toro Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Tufton Oceanic Assets' return on equity of 8.22% beat Chenavari Toro Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tufton Oceanic Assets	88.80%	8.22%	5.03%
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is SHIP or TORO a better dividend stock?

Tufton Oceanic Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 813.0%. Chenavari Toro Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,153.8%. Tufton Oceanic Assets pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chenavari Toro Income Fund pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chenavari Toro Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to SHIP or TORO?

In the previous week, Chenavari Toro Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat Tufton Oceanic Assets' score of 0.00 indicating that Chenavari Toro Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Tufton Oceanic Assets	Neutral
Chenavari Toro Income Fund	Very Positive

Summary

Tufton Oceanic Assets beats Chenavari Toro Income Fund on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.