Ashmore Group (ASHM) Competitors

Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Ashmore Group (LON:ASHM) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.

Is ATST or ASHM a better dividend stock?

Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share. Ashmore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Alliance Trust pays out 1,226.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashmore Group pays out 120.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashmore Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in ATST or ASHM?

6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.9% of Ashmore Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Alliance Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 36.2% of Ashmore Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, ATST or ASHM?

Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ashmore Group. Alliance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashmore Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Alliance Trust	£652.76M	0.00	£601.66M	£2.12	N/A
Ashmore Group	£199.65M	4.86	£94.67M	£14.11	10.26

Do analysts rate ATST or ASHM?

Ashmore Group has a consensus target price of GBX 174, indicating a potential upside of 20.25%. Given Ashmore Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ashmore Group is more favorable than Alliance Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alliance Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Ashmore Group	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.50

Is ATST or ASHM more profitable?

Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.17% compared to Ashmore Group's net margin of 47.42%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 17.93% beat Ashmore Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alliance Trust	92.17%	17.93%	10.95%
Ashmore Group	47.42%	10.71%	4.52%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ATST or ASHM?

Ashmore Group received 532 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 49.38% of users gave Ashmore Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alliance Trust	Outperform Votes 110 73.33%	Underperform Votes 40 26.67%
Ashmore Group	Outperform Votes 642 49.38%	Underperform Votes 658 50.62%

Does the media favor ATST or ASHM?

In the previous week, Ashmore Group had 1 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ashmore Group and 0 mentions for Alliance Trust. Alliance Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ashmore Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Alliance Trust	Neutral
Ashmore Group	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, ATST or ASHM?

Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashmore Group has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Ashmore Group beats Alliance Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.