AT vs. AEP, NFG, PAM, BHI, UTL, GMP, CTP, ET, PVR, and CEG
Should you be buying Ashtead Technology stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashtead Technology include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Next 15 Group (NFG), Premier Asset Management Group (PAM), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHI), UIL (UTL), Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust (GMP), Castleton Technology (CTP), Establishment Investment Trust (ET), Providence Resources (PVR), and Challenger Energy Group (CEG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Ashtead Technology vs.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations and Anglo-Eastern Plantations both had 1 articles in the media. Ashtead Technology's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' score of 0.20 indicating that Ashtead Technology is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Ashtead Technology's net margin of 17.37%. Ashtead Technology's return on equity of 23.56% beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity.
Ashtead Technology has a consensus price target of GBX 830, suggesting a potential upside of 66.83%. Given Ashtead Technology's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ashtead Technology is more favorable than Anglo-Eastern Plantations.
6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 113 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ashtead Technology pays out 3.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than Ashtead Technology. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ashtead Technology beats Anglo-Eastern Plantations on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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