LIO vs. AGT.LN, TFIF, JESC, OCI, MRCH, BGSC, IEM, ICGT, SLS, and TRG
Should you be buying Liontrust Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liontrust Asset Management include AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), and The European Smaller Companies Trust (TRG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Liontrust Asset Management vs.
Liontrust Asset Management (LON:LIO) and AVI Global Trust (LON:AGT.LN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Liontrust Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than AVI Global Trust. AVI Global Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liontrust Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Liontrust Asset Management had 1 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management and 0 mentions for AVI Global Trust. Liontrust Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat AVI Global Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Liontrust Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liontrust Asset Management presently has a consensus target price of GBX 415, indicating a potential upside of 20.12%. Given Liontrust Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Liontrust Asset Management is more favorable than AVI Global Trust.
56.1% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Liontrust Asset Management has a net margin of 35.21% compared to AVI Global Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity of 39.68% beat AVI Global Trust's return on equity.
Liontrust Asset Management received 301 more outperform votes than AVI Global Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.59% of users gave Liontrust Asset Management an outperform vote while only 69.03% of users gave AVI Global Trust an outperform vote.
Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.8%. AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share. Liontrust Asset Management pays out 66.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AVI Global Trust pays out 0.4% 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.
Summary
Liontrust Asset Management beats AVI Global Trust on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LIO) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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