EWI vs. THRG, BUT, PHI, EOT, FSG, HSL, JLEN, CORD, USA, and PCFT
Should you be buying Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust include BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Brunner (BUT), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Foresight Group (FSG), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), and Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) and Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (LON:EWI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust's return on equity of -2.60% beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity.
33.0% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.2% of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.3% of Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust shares are owned by company 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.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust received 32 more outperform votes than Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote while only 57.73% of users gave Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust an outperform vote.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BlackRock Throgmorton Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock Throgmorton Trust and 0 mentions for Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust. Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust beats Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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