FEV vs. PNL, WTAN, MYI, TEM, PIN, MRC, QLT, CLDN, JAM, and HVPE
Should you be buying Fidelity European Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity European Trust include Personal Assets (PNL), Witan (WTAN), Murray International (MYI), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), Pantheon International (PIN), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), Quilter (QLT), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), JPMorgan American (JAM), and HarbourVest Global Priv Equity (HVPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fidelity European Trust (LON:FEV) and Personal Assets (LON:PNL) 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 institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Fidelity European Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.2% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Personal Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Personal Assets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Fidelity European Trust pays out 1,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Personal Assets pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity European Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fidelity European Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Personal Assets. Fidelity European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Fidelity European Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Personal Assets. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fidelity European Trust and 0 mentions for Personal Assets. Fidelity European Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Personal Assets' score of 0.81 indicating that Fidelity European Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Personal Assets received 46 more outperform votes than Fidelity European Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.26% of users gave Fidelity European Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.
Fidelity European Trust has a net margin of 90.56% compared to Personal Assets' net margin of 0.00%. Fidelity European Trust's return on equity of 16.08% beat Personal Assets' return on equity.
Summary
Fidelity European Trust beats Personal Assets on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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