AGT vs. EDIN, N91, IEM, FCSS, CGT, LWDB, TRY, BRWM, IHP, and RICA
Should you be buying AVI Global Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Global Trust include Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Ninety One Group (N91), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), Capital Gearing (CGT), Law Debenture (LWDB), TR Property (TRY), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), IntegraFin (IHP), and Ruffer Investment (RICA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Edinburgh Investment (LON:EDIN) and AVI Global Trust (LON:AGT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Edinburgh Investment has higher revenue and earnings than AVI Global Trust. Edinburgh Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AVI Global Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AVI Global Trust has a net margin of 97.65% compared to AVI Global Trust's net margin of 95.73%. AVI Global Trust's return on equity of 20.66% beat Edinburgh Investment's return on equity.
Edinburgh Investment received 76 more outperform votes than AVI Global Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave AVI Global Trust an outperform vote while only 64.66% of users gave Edinburgh Investment an outperform vote.
24.5% of Edinburgh Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of Edinburgh Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Edinburgh Investment has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AVI Global Trust has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Edinburgh Investment had 12 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Edinburgh Investment and 1 mentions for AVI Global Trust. Edinburgh Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat AVI Global Trust's score of 0.18 indicating that AVI Global Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Edinburgh Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Edinburgh Investment pays out 2,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AVI Global Trust pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Edinburgh Investment beats AVI Global Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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