N91 vs. EDIN, LWDB, BRWM, IEM, AGT, RICA, IHP, CGT, TRY, and ASL
Should you be buying Ninety One Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ninety One Group include Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Law Debenture (LWDB), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), AVI Global Trust (AGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), IntegraFin (IHP), Capital Gearing (CGT), TR Property (TRY), and Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ninety One Group (LON:N91) and Edinburgh Investment (LON:EDIN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Ninety One Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 173, suggesting a potential upside of 4.85%. Given Ninety One Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ninety One Group is more favorable than Edinburgh Investment.
Edinburgh Investment has a net margin of 95.73% compared to Ninety One Group's net margin of 26.51%. Ninety One Group's return on equity of 46.84% beat Edinburgh Investment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Edinburgh Investment had 17 more articles in the media than Ninety One Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Edinburgh Investment and 1 mentions for Ninety One Group. Ninety One Group's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Edinburgh Investment's score of 0.17 indicating that Ninety One Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Edinburgh Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ninety One Group. Edinburgh Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ninety One Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ninety One Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Edinburgh Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Ninety One Group pays out 7,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Edinburgh Investment pays out 2,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
31.7% of Ninety One Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.5% of Edinburgh Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 55.0% of Ninety One Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Edinburgh Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Ninety One Group has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edinburgh Investment has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Edinburgh Investment received 84 more outperform votes than Ninety One Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.66% of users gave Edinburgh Investment an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Ninety One Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Edinburgh Investment beats Ninety One Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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