AUSC vs. OAP3, PINT, FAS, BGS, TAM, AAIF, HFEL, BGEU, ANII, and JEMI
Should you be buying abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth include Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), Fidelity Asian Values (FAS), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), Henderson Far East Income (HFEL), Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust (BGEU), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), and JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus Apollo VCT (LON:OAP3) and abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (LON:AUSC) 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 risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Octopus Apollo VCT has a net margin of 61.90% compared to Octopus Apollo VCT's net margin of 0.00%. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth's return on equity of 8.33% beat Octopus Apollo VCT's return on equity.
Octopus Apollo VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Octopus Apollo VCT pays out 6,000.0% 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 UK Smaller Companies Growth pays out -2,558.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Octopus Apollo VCT received 41 more outperform votes than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth when rated by MarketBeat users.
Octopus Apollo VCT has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Octopus Apollo VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Octopus Apollo VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Octopus Apollo VCT has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
58.0% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Octopus Apollo VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Octopus Apollo VCT beats abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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