PHI vs. BUT, EOT, EWI, THRG, HSL, JLEN, FSG, USA, FEML, and IPX
Should you be buying Pacific Horizon Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust include Brunner (BUT), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Foresight Group (FSG), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), and Impax Asset Management Group (IPX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Brunner (LON:BUT) and Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (LON:PHI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.
Brunner has a net margin of 76.73% compared to Brunner's net margin of 0.00%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's return on equity of 3.90% beat Brunner's return on equity.
Brunner has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
16.5% of Brunner shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Brunner shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Brunner received 39 more outperform votes than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote while only 65.81% of users gave Pacific Horizon Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Brunner has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brunner had 9 more articles in the media than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Brunner and 1 mentions for Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Brunner's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's score of -0.09 indicating that Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Brunner pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays out -526.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Brunner beats Pacific Horizon Investment Trust on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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