CRE vs. SDP, BBH, TFIF, ICGT, GSCT, NBPE, JFJ, MRCH, SYNC, and TMPL
Should you be buying Conduit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduit include Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), Merchants Trust (MRCH), Syncona (SYNC), and Temple Bar (TMPL). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (LON:SDP) and Conduit (LON:CRE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduit has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Conduit pays an annual dividend of GBX 29 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund pays out -7,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Conduit pays out 3,052.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Conduit had 2 more articles in the media than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Conduit and 1 mentions for Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. Conduit's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund's score of 0.25 indicating that Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
58.1% of Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.4% of Conduit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Conduit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Conduit has a consensus target price of GBX 695, suggesting a potential upside of 37.90%. Given Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Conduit is more favorable than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund.
Conduit received 150 more outperform votes than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.06% of users gave Conduit an outperform vote while only 70.55% of users gave Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund an outperform vote.
Conduit has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Conduit, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Conduit has a net margin of 32.12% compared to Conduit's net margin of 0.00%. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund's return on equity of 20.58% beat Conduit's return on equity.
Summary
Conduit beats Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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