BEMO vs. AEET, GCL, MIG5, EJFI, FEN, TENT, CRS, SBSI, IVPG, and MIG1
Should you be buying Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities include Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (AEET), Geiger Counter (GCL), Maven Income & Growth VCT 5 (MIG5), EJF Investments (EJFI), Frenkel Topping Group (FEN), Triple Point Energy Transition (TENT), Crystal Amber (CRS), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Invesco Select Glo Eq (IVPG), and Maven Income & Growth VCT (MIG1). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (LON:AEET) and Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities (LON:BEMO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and valuation.
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust pays out -50,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities pays out 170,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust has a beta of -0.12, indicating that its stock price is 112% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
68.2% of Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.4% of Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. 6.8% of Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities' net margin of -25.89%. Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities' return on equity of 0.14% beat Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust's return on equity.
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust and Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust and 0 mentions for Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities. Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust's score of -0.28 indicating that Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities. Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust beats Barings Emerging EMEA Opportunities on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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