Impax Environmental Markets (IEM) Competitors

Impax Environmental Markets (LON:IEM) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.

Which has more volatility and risk, IEM or ATST?

Impax Environmental Markets has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is IEM or ATST more profitable?

Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.17% compared to Impax Environmental Markets' net margin of 0.00%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 17.93% beat Impax Environmental Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Impax Environmental Markets	N/A	-0.90%	-0.44%
Alliance Trust	92.17%	17.93%	10.95%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in IEM or ATST?

41.2% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Alliance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IEM or ATST?

Alliance Trust received 41 more outperform votes than Impax Environmental Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 66.99% of users gave Impax Environmental Markets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Impax Environmental Markets	Outperform Votes 69 66.99%	Underperform Votes 34 33.01%
Alliance Trust	Outperform Votes 110 73.33%	Underperform Votes 40 26.67%

Is IEM or ATST a better dividend stock?

Impax Environmental Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Impax Environmental Markets pays out -12,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Trust pays out 1,226.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has better earnings & valuation, IEM or ATST?

Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Impax Environmental Markets. Impax Environmental Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Impax Environmental Markets	£1.57M	602.91	-£10.83M	-£0.04	-9,425.00
Alliance Trust	£652.76M	5.52	£601.66M	£2.12	603.77

Does the media refer more to IEM or ATST?

In the previous week, Impax Environmental Markets had 1 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Impax Environmental Markets and 0 mentions for Alliance Trust. Impax Environmental Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Alliance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Impax Environmental Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Impax Environmental Markets	Positive
Alliance Trust	Neutral

Summary

Alliance Trust beats Impax Environmental Markets on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.