BRK vs. ASHM, BRWM, CGT, RICA, SAIN, JEO, APEO, TMPL, SLPE, and IEM
Should you be buying Brooks Macdonald Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brooks Macdonald Group include Ashmore Group (ASHM), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), Capital Gearing (CGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Temple Bar (TMPL), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), and Impax Environmental Markets (IEM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brooks Macdonald Group vs.
Ashmore Group (LON:ASHM) and Brooks Macdonald Group (LON:BRK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Ashmore Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 174, suggesting a potential upside of 19.06%. Brooks Macdonald Group has a consensus target price of GBX 2,150, suggesting a potential upside of 36.51%. Given Brooks Macdonald Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Brooks Macdonald Group is more favorable than Ashmore Group.
In the previous week, Brooks Macdonald Group's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Ashmore Group's score of 0.09 indicating that Brooks Macdonald Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ashmore Group has higher revenue and earnings than Brooks Macdonald Group. Ashmore Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brooks Macdonald Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ashmore Group has a net margin of 47.42% compared to Brooks Macdonald Group's net margin of 5.03%. Ashmore Group's return on equity of 10.71% beat Brooks Macdonald Group's return on equity.
Ashmore Group has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brooks Macdonald Group has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
37.9% of Ashmore Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.9% of Brooks Macdonald Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 36.2% of Ashmore Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Brooks Macdonald Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ashmore Group received 339 more outperform votes than Brooks Macdonald Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.09% of users gave Brooks Macdonald Group an outperform vote while only 49.38% of users gave Ashmore Group an outperform vote.
Ashmore Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Brooks Macdonald Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. 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. Brooks Macdonald Group pays out 196.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashmore Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Ashmore Group beats Brooks Macdonald Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BRK) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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