IEM vs. N91, AGT, TRY, EDIN, FCSS, IHP, RICA, CGT, BBGI, and FSV
Should you be buying Impax Environmental Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Impax Environmental Markets include Ninety One Group (N91), AVI Global Trust (AGT), TR Property (TRY), Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), IntegraFin (IHP), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), and Fidelity Special Values (FSV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ninety One Group (LON:N91) and Impax Environmental Markets (LON:IEM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
Ninety One Group has higher revenue and earnings than Impax Environmental Markets. Ninety One Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Impax Environmental Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ninety One Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 173, suggesting a potential downside of 1.87%. Given Impax Environmental Markets' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Ninety One Group is more favorable than Impax Environmental Markets.
Impax Environmental Markets has a net margin of 80.16% compared to Impax Environmental Markets' net margin of 26.51%. Impax Environmental Markets' return on equity of 46.84% beat Ninety One Group's return on equity.
31.7% of Ninety One Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.2% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 55.5% of Ninety One Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ninety One Group has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impax Environmental Markets has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ninety One Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Impax Environmental Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ninety One Group pays out 7,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Impax Environmental Markets pays out 2,083.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Impax Environmental Markets had 1 more articles in the media than Ninety One Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Impax Environmental Markets and 0 mentions for Ninety One Group. Ninety One Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Impax Environmental Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that Impax Environmental Markets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Impax Environmental Markets received 67 more outperform votes than Ninety One Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.99% of users gave Impax Environmental Markets an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Ninety One Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Impax Environmental Markets beats Ninety One Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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