SAGA vs. OIG, HANA, CLIG, SEC, JSGI, JZCP, UAV, FTF, BERI, and BRSA
Should you be buying Saga stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saga include Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust (BERI), and BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Oryx International Growth Fund (LON:OIG) and Saga (LON:SAGA) 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 valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
62.0% of Oryx International Growth Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.6% of Saga shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Oryx International Growth Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 36.8% of Saga shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Oryx International Growth Fund has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saga. Saga is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oryx International Growth Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Oryx International Growth Fund has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saga has a beta of 2.44, suggesting that its stock price is 144% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Saga received 485 more outperform votes than Oryx International Growth Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.35% of users gave Saga an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Oryx International Growth Fund an outperform vote.
Oryx International Growth Fund has a net margin of 91.46% compared to Oryx International Growth Fund's net margin of -10.23%. Saga's return on equity of 16.42% beat Oryx International Growth Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, Saga had 34 more articles in the media than Oryx International Growth Fund. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Saga and 2 mentions for Oryx International Growth Fund. Saga's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Oryx International Growth Fund's score of -0.02 indicating that Oryx International Growth Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Oryx International Growth Fund beats Saga on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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