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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

Market 1 Market 2 Market 3 Market 4

Music royalties 44 Demanding A bond-like income stream, priced like one — until a streaming platform rewrites its payout rules.
Ground rents & freehold reversions 47 Demanding Looks like a bond and behaves like a political forecast: Parliament is the counterparty that matters.

	Music royalties	Ground rents & freehold reversions
Exit difficulty	4	4
Volatility	2	3
Leverage	1	2
Carry cost	2	2
Fraud risk	2	2
Protection gap	4	4
Barrier to entry	3	2
Expertise needed	4	4
Difficulty	44 Demanding	47 Demanding
In a sentence	A share of the income a song earns whenever it is streamed, played or licensed — a genuine annuity, priced as a multiple of recent earnings.	The freehold interest under a block of leasehold flats — a small income stream plus a reversion, and the subject of active legislative demolition.
Unit	A percentage of a catalogue’s income	One freehold title
Smallest realistic trade	Institutional for catalogues; fractional platforms exist	A single reversion, often a few thousand pounds
Settlement	Assignment of rights, with income redirected at source	Conveyancing, with statutory rights of first refusal to leaseholders

The fingerprint measures how demanding a market is to take part in. It is not a rating or a recommendation.