CGT vs. ASL, VEIL, N91, LWDB, ATT, EDIN, ASHM, BRWM, IEM, and AJB
Should you be buying Capital Gearing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Gearing include Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL), Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), Ninety One Group (N91), Law Debenture (LWDB), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Ashmore Group (ASHM), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), and AJ Bell (AJB). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) and Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (LON:ASL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
Capital Gearing has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Capital Gearing had 7 more articles in the media than Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Capital Gearing and 1 mentions for Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Capital Gearing's score of -0.01 indicating that Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
21.7% of Capital Gearing shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.0% of Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.9% of Capital Gearing shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by 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.
Capital Gearing received 38 more outperform votes than Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.56% of users gave Capital Gearing an outperform vote while only 72.81% of users gave Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust an outperform vote.
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust has a net margin of 86.17% compared to Capital Gearing's net margin of 0.00%. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity of 7.77% beat Capital Gearing's return on equity.
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Gearing. Capital Gearing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Capital Gearing pays out -2,898.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust pays out 3,589.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust beats Capital Gearing on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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