BOOK vs. GSEO, GSF, STS, SJG, BRK, GABI, SST, BIPS, HINT, and BRFI
Should you be buying Literacy Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Literacy Capital include VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO), Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS), Schroder Japan Trust (SJG), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), Henderson International Income Trust (HINT), and BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Literacy Capital (LON:BOOK) and VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (LON:GSEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Literacy Capital has a beta of -0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has a beta of 0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
1.9% of Literacy Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.4% of Literacy Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Literacy Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities'average media sentiment score.
Literacy Capital and VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Literacy Capital has a net margin of 85.57% compared to VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities' net margin of 72.77%. Literacy Capital's return on equity of 62.05% beat VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities' return on equity.
Literacy Capital has higher revenue and earnings than VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities. Literacy Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Literacy Capital beats VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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