EWI vs. THRG, BUT, EOT, FSFL, NAS, IPX, FSG, PHI, CORD, and PCFT
Should you be buying Edinburgh Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edinburgh Worldwide include BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Brunner (BUT), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Foresight Solar (FSFL), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Foresight Group (FSG), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), and Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) and Edinburgh Worldwide (LON:EWI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edinburgh Worldwide has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Edinburgh Worldwide's return on equity of -2.60% beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust received 32 more outperform votes than Edinburgh Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote while only 57.73% of users gave Edinburgh Worldwide an outperform vote.
33.0% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Edinburgh Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. 13.9% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Edinburgh Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, BlackRock Throgmorton Trust and BlackRock Throgmorton Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Edinburgh Worldwide's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Edinburgh Worldwide. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edinburgh Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust beats Edinburgh Worldwide on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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