SDV vs. STM, JGC, HDIV, VLE, GPM, OFG, CBA, FWT, BRIG, and DNE
Should you be buying Chelverton UK Dividend Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chelverton UK Dividend Trust include STM Group (STM), Jupiter Green (JGC), Henderson Diversified Income (HDIV), Volvere (VLE), Golden Prospect Precious Metal (GPM), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), CEIBA Investments (CBA), Foresight Technology VCT (FWT), BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG), and Dunedin Enterprise (DNE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (LON:SDV) and STM Group (LON:STM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, STM Group had 2 more articles in the media than Chelverton UK Dividend Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for STM Group and 0 mentions for Chelverton UK Dividend Trust. Chelverton UK Dividend Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat STM Group's score of -0.24 indicating that Chelverton UK Dividend Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
7.2% of Chelverton UK Dividend Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.6% of STM Group shares are held by institutional investors. 40.6% of Chelverton UK Dividend Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.6% of STM Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
STM Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chelverton UK Dividend Trust. Chelverton UK Dividend Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STM Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chelverton UK Dividend Trust has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, STM Group has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
STM Group received 139 more outperform votes than Chelverton UK Dividend Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.76% of users gave STM Group an outperform vote while only 54.39% of users gave Chelverton UK Dividend Trust an outperform vote.
STM Group has a net margin of 2.46% compared to Chelverton UK Dividend Trust's net margin of 0.00%. STM Group's return on equity of 1.65% beat Chelverton UK Dividend Trust's return on equity.
Chelverton UK Dividend Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. STM Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Chelverton UK Dividend Trust pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. STM Group pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Chelverton UK Dividend Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
STM Group beats Chelverton UK Dividend Trust on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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