SOI vs. DGN, JII, BSIF, POLR, SLPE, OCI, SWEF, and EAT
Should you be buying Schroder Oriental Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Oriental Income include Asia Dragon (DGN), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Polar Capital (POLR), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF), and European Assets Trust (EAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Asia Dragon (LON:DGN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity of -3.78% beat Asia Dragon's return on equity.
Schroder Oriental Income received 126 more outperform votes than Asia Dragon when rated by MarketBeat users.
Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asia Dragon has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder Oriental Income has higher revenue and earnings than Asia Dragon. Schroder Oriental Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asia Dragon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Schroder Oriental Income had 3 more articles in the media than Asia Dragon. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income and 0 mentions for Asia Dragon. Schroder Oriental Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Asia Dragon'saverage media sentiment score.
32.6% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.4% of Asia Dragon shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Asia Dragon shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Asia Dragon pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Schroder Oriental Income pays out -12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Asia Dragon pays out -786.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Schroder Oriental Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Schroder Oriental Income beats Asia Dragon on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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