BTEM vs. OCI, BBH, SDP, JESC, MRCH, APAX, GCP, JLEN, BSIF, and BGSC
Should you be buying British Empire Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Empire Trust include Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Bellevue Healthcare Trust (BBH), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), and BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Empire Trust vs.
British Empire Trust (LON:BTEM) and Oakley Capital Investments (LON:OCI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Oakley Capital Investments received 22 more outperform votes than British Empire Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.03% of users gave British Empire Trust an outperform vote while only 65.15% of users gave Oakley Capital Investments an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Oakley Capital Investments had 1 more articles in the media than British Empire Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Oakley Capital Investments and 0 mentions for British Empire Trust. Oakley Capital Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat British Empire Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Oakley Capital Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Oakley Capital Investments has higher revenue and earnings than British Empire Trust. British Empire Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oakley Capital Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
British Empire Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Oakley Capital Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. British Empire Trust pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oakley Capital Investments pays out 315.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Oakley Capital Investments has a net margin of 97.45% compared to British Empire Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Oakley Capital Investments' return on equity of 20.95% beat British Empire Trust's return on equity.
49.4% of Oakley Capital Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 15.7% of Oakley Capital Investments shares are held by company 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
Oakley Capital Investments beats British Empire Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BTEM and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
British Empire Trust Competitors List
