MYI vs. WTAN, PIN, FEV, QLT, RAT, JTC, PNL, BNKR, TEM, and MRC
Should you be buying Murray International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murray International include Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Pantheon International (PIN), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Quilter (QLT), Rathbones Group (RAT), JTC (JTC), Personal Assets (PNL), Bankers (BNKR), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), and Mercantile (MRC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Witan Investment Trust (LON:WTAN) and Murray International (LON:MYI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Murray International received 34 more outperform votes than Witan Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.63% of users gave Witan Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 65.98% of users gave Murray International an outperform vote.
6.8% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.1% of Murray International shares are held by institutional investors. 7.9% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Murray International shares are held 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.
Witan Investment Trust has a net margin of 87.38% compared to Witan Investment Trust's net margin of 86.85%. Murray International's return on equity of 10.78% beat Witan Investment Trust's return on equity.
Witan Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Murray International pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Witan Investment Trust pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Murray International pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Witan Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Murray International. Witan Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Murray International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Murray International had 1 more articles in the media than Witan Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Murray International and 1 mentions for Witan Investment Trust. Murray International's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Witan Investment Trust's score of -0.47 indicating that Witan Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Witan Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murray International has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Witan Investment Trust beats Murray International on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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