I didn't know they were this close, I thought there was a huge difference between them but apparently with the increase in the price of ripple the other day they got too close.

As long as ripple continues to make deals with the companies and banks and increase their value the ripple will go up like the shares of a successful company whereas ethereum will stay like this as long as ICO market is dried up and not going anywhere. Ripple will win this until their success goes along and eth has no ICO market to serve for.

Ethereum will comeback and be more valube compared to Ripple if the ICO market gets liven up again so eth could rise.