HAN vs. GOT, ANIC, HOT, OSEC, UTL, MIX, MHN, NSI, VIP, and ARTL
Should you be buying Hansa Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hansa Investment include Global Opportunities Trust (GOT), Agronomics (ANIC), Henderson Opportunities (HOT), Octopus AIM VCT 2 (OSEC), UIL (UTL), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP), and Alpha Real Trust (ARTL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hansa Investment (LON:HAN) and Global Opportunities Trust (LON:GOT) 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 institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Hansa Investment has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Opportunities Trust has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hansa Investment has a net margin of 85.77% compared to Global Opportunities Trust's net margin of 68.82%. Hansa Investment's return on equity of 8.16% beat Global Opportunities Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Global Opportunities Trust had 6 more articles in the media than Hansa Investment. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Global Opportunities Trust and 0 mentions for Hansa Investment. Hansa Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Global Opportunities Trust's score of 0.50 indicating that Hansa Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
0.9% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of Global Opportunities Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.2% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.6% of Global Opportunities Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hansa Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Global Opportunities Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Hansa Investment pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Global Opportunities Trust pays out 3,125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Hansa Investment received 37 more outperform votes than Global Opportunities Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Hansa Investment an outperform vote while only 63.87% of users gave Global Opportunities Trust an outperform vote.
Hansa Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Global Opportunities Trust. Hansa Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Opportunities Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hansa Investment beats Global Opportunities Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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