ARBB vs. STB, MTRO, BIRG, CBKD, MTU, JCGI, JZCP, JSGI, AUGM, and CLIG
Should you be buying Arbuthnot Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arbuthnot Banking Group include Secure Trust Bank (STB), Metro Bank (MTRO), Bank of Ireland Group (BIRG), Commercial International Bank (Egypt) S.A.E. (CBKD), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU), JPMorgan China Growth & Income (JCGI), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), and City of London Investment Group (CLIG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Secure Trust Bank (LON:STB) and Arbuthnot Banking Group (LON:ARBB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Secure Trust Bank pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Arbuthnot Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Secure Trust Bank pays out 2,335.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Arbuthnot Banking Group pays out 2,053.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Secure Trust Bank has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arbuthnot Banking Group has a beta of 0.95, suggesting that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Secure Trust Bank received 146 more outperform votes than Arbuthnot Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.63% of users gave Secure Trust Bank an outperform vote while only 57.63% of users gave Arbuthnot Banking Group an outperform vote.
68.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.9% of Arbuthnot Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.5% of Secure Trust Bank shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 64.4% of Arbuthnot Banking Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Arbuthnot Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Secure Trust Bank. Arbuthnot Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Secure Trust Bank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Secure Trust Bank had 2 more articles in the media than Arbuthnot Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Secure Trust Bank and 1 mentions for Arbuthnot Banking Group. Arbuthnot Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Secure Trust Bank's score of 0.00 indicating that Secure Trust Bank is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arbuthnot Banking Group has a net margin of 19.85% compared to Arbuthnot Banking Group's net margin of 17.14%. Secure Trust Bank's return on equity of 15.24% beat Arbuthnot Banking Group's return on equity.
Summary
Arbuthnot Banking Group beats Secure Trust Bank on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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