BUT vs. PHI, THRG, EOT, EWI, HSL, IPX, FSG, FSFL, USA, and FEML
Should you be buying Brunner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brunner include Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Foresight Group (FSG), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), and Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brunner (LON:BUT) and Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (LON:PHI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability and dividends.
Brunner has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brunner has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Brunner pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays out -526.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Brunner received 39 more outperform votes than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote while only 65.81% of users gave Pacific Horizon Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Brunner has a net margin of 76.73% compared to Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Brunner's return on equity of 3.90% beat Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's return on equity.
16.5% of Brunner shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 30.4% of Brunner shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Pacific Horizon 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.
In the previous week, Brunner had 18 more articles in the media than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Brunner and 2 mentions for Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Brunner's score of 0.09 indicating that Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Brunner beats Pacific Horizon Investment Trust on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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