Saga (SAGA) Competitors

BMO Global Smaller Companies (LON:BGSC) and Saga (LON:SAGA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Do analysts prefer BGSC or SAGA?

Saga has a consensus price target of GBX 154, indicating a potential upside of 5.48%. Given Saga's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Saga is more favorable than BMO Global Smaller Companies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BMO Global Smaller Companies	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Saga	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in BGSC or SAGA?

13.4% of Saga shares are held by institutional investors. 37.5% of Saga shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is BGSC or SAGA a better dividend stock?

BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Saga pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saga pays out -1.9% 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. Saga is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is BGSC or SAGA more profitable?

BMO Global Smaller Companies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Saga's net margin of -18.42%. BMO Global Smaller Companies' return on equity of 0.00% beat Saga's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BMO Global Smaller Companies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Saga	-18.42%	-87.14%	2.90%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BGSC or SAGA?

Saga received 495 more outperform votes than BMO Global Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.39% of users gave Saga an outperform vote while only 68.18% of users gave BMO Global Smaller Companies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BMO Global Smaller Companies	Outperform Votes 15 68.18%	Underperform Votes 7 31.82%
Saga	Outperform Votes 510 69.39%	Underperform Votes 225 30.61%

Does the media refer more to BGSC or SAGA?

In the previous week, Saga had 35 more articles in the media than BMO Global Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for Saga and 0 mentions for BMO Global Smaller Companies. Saga's average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Saga is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BMO Global Smaller Companies	Neutral
Saga	Neutral

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, BGSC or SAGA?

BMO Global Smaller Companies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saga. Saga is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BMO Global Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BMO Global Smaller Companies	£303.85M	0.00	N/A	£50.70	N/A
Saga	£799.48M	0.25	-£147.23M	-£106.79	-1.37

Summary

Saga beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.