CLIG vs. MTU, AUGM, OIG, AJOT, BPM, JZCP, JSGI, HANA, PEMB, and ARR
Should you be buying City of London Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City of London Investment Group include Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (AJOT), B.P. Marsh & Partners (BPM), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Hansa Investment (HANA), Pembroke VCT B (PEMB), and Aurora (ARR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (LON:MTU) and City of London Investment Group (LON:CLIG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City of London Investment Group has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, City of London Investment Group had 1 more articles in the media than Montanaro UK Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for City of London Investment Group and 0 mentions for Montanaro UK Smaller Companies. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat City of London Investment Group's score of 0.00 indicating that City of London Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.5% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.8% of City of London Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.1% of City of London Investment Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
City of London Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Montanaro UK Smaller Companies. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City of London Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. City of London Investment Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 33 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. City of London Investment Group pays out 11,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a net margin of 88.19% compared to Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' net margin of 25.18%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' return on equity of 12.25% beat City of London Investment Group's return on equity.
City of London Investment Group received 197 more outperform votes than Montanaro UK Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.70% of users gave City of London Investment Group an outperform vote while only 68.32% of users gave Montanaro UK Smaller Companies an outperform vote.
Summary
City of London Investment Group beats Montanaro UK Smaller Companies on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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