Saga (SAGA) Competitors

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

Do insiders and institutionals believe in SAGA or BGSC?

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, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is SAGA or BGSC 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
Saga	-18.42%	-87.14%	2.90%
BMO Global Smaller Companies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend SAGA or BGSC?

Saga presently has a consensus target price of GBX 154, suggesting a potential upside of 7.93%. Given Saga's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Saga is more favorable than BMO Global Smaller Companies.

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

Does the media refer more to SAGA or BGSC?

In the previous week, Saga had 19 more articles in the media than BMO Global Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Saga and 0 mentions for BMO Global Smaller Companies. Saga's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Saga is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Saga	Neutral
BMO Global Smaller Companies	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community favor SAGA or BGSC?

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

Is SAGA or BGSC a better dividend stock?

Saga pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Saga pays out -1.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% 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.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, SAGA or BGSC?

BMO Global Smaller Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Saga	£799.48M	0.25	-£147.23M	-£106.79	-1.34
BMO Global Smaller Companies	£303.85M	0.00	N/A	£50.70	N/A

Summary

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