GCP vs. HSL, FEML, BGFD, IPX, BRGE, JEDT, GROW, BRSC, SEIT, and EOT
Should you be buying GCP Infrastructure Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GCP Infrastructure Investments include Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), Molten Ventures (GROW), BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust (BRSC), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), and European Opportunities Trust (EOT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
GCP Infrastructure Investments (LON:GCP) and Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
62.2% of GCP Infrastructure Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of GCP Infrastructure Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GCP Infrastructure Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Smaller Companies. Henderson Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GCP Infrastructure Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GCP Infrastructure Investments has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GCP Infrastructure Investments received 7 more outperform votes than Henderson Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.64% of users gave Henderson Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave GCP Infrastructure Investments an outperform vote.
GCP Infrastructure Investments has a net margin of 72.61% compared to Henderson Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. GCP Infrastructure Investments' return on equity of 3.16% beat Henderson Smaller Companies' return on equity.
GCP Infrastructure Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Henderson Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. GCP Infrastructure Investments pays out 17,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henderson Smaller Companies pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, GCP Infrastructure Investments and GCP Infrastructure Investments both had 3 articles in the media. Henderson Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.44 beat GCP Infrastructure Investments' score of -0.08 indicating that Henderson Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
GCP Infrastructure Investments beats Henderson Smaller Companies on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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