AV vs. SMT, AIBG, LGEN, STAN, ADM, PSH, ICP, SDR, PRU, and FCIT
Should you be buying Aviva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aviva include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), AIB Group (AIBG), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Standard Chartered (STAN), Admiral Group (ADM), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Prudential (PRU), and F&C Investment Trust (FCIT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Aviva (LON:AV) and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LON:SMT) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Aviva has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aviva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aviva pays an annual dividend of GBX 33 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Aviva pays out 8,918.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays out -754.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Aviva had 13 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Aviva and 3 mentions for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Aviva's score of 0.31 indicating that Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust received 125 more outperform votes than Aviva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 58.82% of users gave Aviva an outperform vote.
Aviva has a net margin of 5.03% compared to Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Aviva's return on equity of 11.16% beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
49.1% of Aviva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.3% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Aviva shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Aviva currently has a consensus target price of GBX 506, suggesting a potential upside of 9.10%. Given Aviva's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Aviva is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
Aviva has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Aviva beats Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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