ABDN vs. MNKS, JGGI, HICL, INPP, BUR, IIG, RCP, SSON, STJ, and HGT
Should you be buying abrdn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn include Monks (MNKS), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Burford Capital (BUR), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), St. James's Place (STJ), and HgCapital Trust (HGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Monks (LON:MNKS) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
39.7% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Monks shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Monks shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
abrdn has higher revenue and earnings than Monks.
In the previous week, Monks had 37 more articles in the media than abrdn. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Monks and 1 mentions for abrdn. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Monks' score of 0.13 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Monks received 79 more outperform votes than abrdn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.18% of users gave Monks an outperform vote while only 13.21% of users gave abrdn an outperform vote.
abrdn has a net margin of 0.07% compared to Monks' net margin of -3.97%. abrdn's return on equity of 0.22% beat Monks' return on equity.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Monks pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
abrdn has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monks has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
abrdn beats Monks on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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