Brunner (BUT) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders believe in BUR or BUT?

54.5% of Burford Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.0% of Brunner shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of Burford Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Brunner shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, BUR or BUT?

Burford Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Brunner. Burford Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunner, 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
Burford Capital	£1.18B	1.98	£321.16M	£2.06	517.96
Brunner	£46.67M	12.67	£40.63M	£0.95	1,457.89

Do analysts rate BUR or BUT?

Burford Capital presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,600, suggesting a potential upside of 49.95%. Given Brunner's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Burford Capital is more favorable than Brunner.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Burford Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Brunner	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is BUR or BUT more profitable?

Brunner has a net margin of 87.05% compared to Brunner's net margin of 27.26%. Brunner's return on equity of 13.82% beat Burford Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Burford Capital	27.26%	13.82%	10.89%
Brunner	87.05%	7.93%	4.94%

Which has more volatility and risk, BUR or BUT?

Burford Capital has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brunner has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is BUR or BUT a better dividend stock?

Burford Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Burford Capital pays out 485.4% 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 2,421.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BUR or BUT?

Burford Capital received 265 more outperform votes than Brunner when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.56% of users gave Burford Capital an outperform vote while only 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Burford Capital	Outperform Votes 381 74.56%	Underperform Votes 130 25.44%
Brunner	Outperform Votes 116 66.29%	Underperform Votes 59 33.71%

Does the media prefer BUR or BUT?

In the previous week, Burford Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Brunner. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Burford Capital and 0 mentions for Brunner. Brunner's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Burford Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Burford Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Burford Capital	Positive
Brunner	Neutral

Summary

Burford Capital beats Brunner on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.