BAF vs. BRH, SVM, MILA, ATY, MAFL, SEED, VOX, SIV, TMI, and PRIM
Should you be buying British & American Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British & American Investment Trust include Braveheart Investment Group (BRH), SVM UK Emerging (SVM), Mila Resources (MILA), Athelney Trust (ATY), Mineral & Financial Investments (MAFL), Seed Innovations (SEED), Vox Valor Capital (VOX), Sivota (SIV), Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI), and Primorus Investments (PRIM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Braveheart Investment Group (LON:BRH) and British & American Investment Trust (LON:BAF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
0.7% of Braveheart Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.5% of Braveheart Investment Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 69.7% of British & American Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
British & American Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Braveheart Investment Group. British & American Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Braveheart Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
British & American Investment Trust has a net margin of 80.67% compared to British & American Investment Trust's net margin of 51.73%. Braveheart Investment Group's return on equity of 43.41% beat British & American Investment Trust's return on equity.
Braveheart Investment Group has a beta of -0.51, indicating that its stock price is 151% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, British & American Investment Trust has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Braveheart Investment Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. British & American Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.7%. Braveheart Investment Group pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. British & American Investment Trust pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. British & American Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Braveheart Investment Group received 31 more outperform votes than British & American Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.28% of users gave Braveheart Investment Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave British & American Investment Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, British & American Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Braveheart Investment Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
British & American Investment Trust beats Braveheart Investment Group on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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