ARTL vs. BGHS, IBT, MTE, CCJI, JUSC, BGUK, JMC, ASLI, MNP, and WPC
Should you be buying Alpha Real Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Real Trust include Boussard & Gavaudan GBP (BGHS), International Biotechnology (IBT), Montanaro European Smaller (MTE), CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI), JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (JUSC), Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (BGUK), JP Morgan Chinese Investment Trust (JMC), abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI), Martin Currie Global Portfolio (MNP), and Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L) (WPC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Boussard & Gavaudan GBP (LON:BGHS) and Alpha Real Trust (LON:ARTL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Boussard & Gavaudan GBP has a beta of 0.26, meaning that its share price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Real Trust has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpha Real Trust has a net margin of 15.11% compared to Alpha Real Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Boussard & Gavaudan GBP's return on equity of 1.03% beat Alpha Real Trust's return on equity.
Alpha Real Trust received 100 more outperform votes than Boussard & Gavaudan GBP when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Alpha Real Trust an outperform vote while only 56.82% of users gave Boussard & Gavaudan GBP an outperform vote.
4.3% of Alpha Real Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Boussard & Gavaudan GBP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 87.2% of Alpha Real Trust 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.
In the previous week, Alpha Real Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Boussard & Gavaudan GBP. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alpha Real Trust and 0 mentions for Boussard & Gavaudan GBP. Boussard & Gavaudan GBP's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Alpha Real Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Alpha Real Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alpha Real Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Boussard & Gavaudan GBP. Boussard & Gavaudan GBP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Real Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alpha Real Trust beats Boussard & Gavaudan GBP on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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