EGL vs. ICGT, OCI, APAX, RICA, JEO, MUT, APEO, SLPE, TFIF, and SDP
Should you be buying Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Ruffer Investment (RICA), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Murray Income Trust (MUT), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), and Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust vs. Its Competitors
ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust (LON:EGL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends and risk.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ICG Enterprise Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
18.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.2% of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust and ICG Enterprise Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat ICG Enterprise Trust's score of 1.55 indicating that Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust pays out 0.3% 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.
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust has a net margin of 192.30% compared to ICG Enterprise Trust's net margin of 58.54%. ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity of 2.61% beat Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust's return on equity.
Summary
ICG Enterprise Trust beats Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:EGL) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff