Brunner (BUT) Competitors

HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) and Brunner (LON:BUT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.

Which has more risk & volatility, HICL or BUT?

HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brunner has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is HICL or BUT more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to Brunner's net margin of 94.54%. Brunner's return on equity of 18.49% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HICL Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%
Brunner	94.54%	18.49%	11.63%

Is HICL or BUT a better dividend stock?

HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. HICL Infrastructure pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brunner pays out 9.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in HICL or BUT?

54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.4% of Brunner shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Brunner shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer HICL or BUT?

In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure and HICL Infrastructure both had 1 articles in the media. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Brunner's score of 0.75 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HICL Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Brunner	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has higher valuation & earnings, HICL or BUT?

Brunner has higher revenue and earnings than HICL Infrastructure. Brunner is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, 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
HICL Infrastructure	£105.30M	23.15	£101.36M	£5.10	24.01
Brunner	£111.40M	5.51	£105.32M	£241.42	5.86

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HICL or BUT?

HICL Infrastructure received 50 more outperform votes than Brunner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HICL Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 166 72.81%	Underperform Votes 62 27.19%
Brunner	Outperform Votes 116 66.29%	Underperform Votes 59 33.71%

Summary

HICL Infrastructure and Brunner tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.