GSF vs. STS, GSEO, GABI, SJG, BOOK, AIE, HHI, BRFI, BRK, and DIVI
Should you be buying Gore Street Energy Storage Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund include STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS), VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), Schroder Japan Trust (SJG), Literacy Capital (BOOK), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), and Diverse Income Trust (DIVI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (LON:GSF) and STS Global Income & Growth Trust (LON:STS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Gore Street Energy Storage Fund pays out 8,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays out -17,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, STS Global Income & Growth Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that STS Global Income & Growth Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund presently has a consensus target price of GBX 85, indicating a potential upside of 30.97%. Given Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Gore Street Energy Storage Fund is more favorable than STS Global Income & Growth Trust.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust received 69 more outperform votes than Gore Street Energy Storage Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.48% of users gave STS Global Income & Growth Trust an outperform vote while only 16.22% of users gave Gore Street Energy Storage Fund an outperform vote.
40.3% of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.0% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are owned by company 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.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has higher revenue and earnings than STS Global Income & Growth Trust. STS Global Income & Growth Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, STS Global Income & Growth Trust has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has a net margin of 81.80% compared to STS Global Income & Growth Trust's net margin of 56.58%. Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's return on equity of 8.27% beat STS Global Income & Growth Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund beats STS Global Income & Growth Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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