CAM vs. AEP, OGN, PAL, RE, DKL, AAAP, EVST, AGTA, PIL, and MPE
Should you be buying Camellia stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Camellia include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Origin Enterprises (OGN), Equatorial Palm Oil plc (PAL.L) (PAL), R.E.A. (RE), Dekel Agri-Vision (DKL), Anglo African Agriculture (AAAP), Everest Global (EVST), Agriterra (AGTA), Produce Investments (PIL), and M.P. Evans Group (MPE). These companies are all part of the "farm products" industry.
Camellia vs. Its Competitors
Camellia (LON:CAM) and Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Camellia's net margin of -7.61%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 12.46% beat Camellia's return on equity.
Camellia has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Camellia pays an annual dividend of GBX 146 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Camellia pays out -19.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Camellia is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
9.1% of Camellia shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by institutional investors. 69.5% of Camellia shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than Camellia. Camellia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anglo-Eastern Plantations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations had 8 more articles in the media than Camellia. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Anglo-Eastern Plantations and 3 mentions for Camellia. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Camellia's score of 0.27 indicating that Anglo-Eastern Plantations is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats Camellia on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CAM) was last updated on 8/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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