MTU vs. AUGM, JSGI, HANA, OIG, TIGT, JCGI, CLIG, UAV, BASC, and BRSA
Should you be buying Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust include Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap G&I (JSGI), Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT), JPMorgan China Growth & Income (JCGI), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), and BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust (LON:MTU) and Augmentum Fintech (LON:AUGM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Augmentum Fintech. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Augmentum Fintech, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Augmentum Fintech'saverage media sentiment score.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust has a net margin of 88.19% compared to Augmentum Fintech's net margin of 0.00%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust's return on equity of 9.97% beat Augmentum Fintech's return on equity.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust received 26 more outperform votes than Augmentum Fintech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.67% of users gave Augmentum Fintech an outperform vote while only 68.32% of users gave Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust an outperform vote.
77.2% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.5% of Augmentum Fintech shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Augmentum Fintech shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust beats Augmentum Fintech on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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