UEM vs. PAC, POLN, LIO, PCGH, ATR, NESF, JEGI, AAS, MWY, and GROW
Should you be buying Utilico Emerging Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Utilico Emerging Markets include Pacific Assets (PAC), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH), Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Mid Wynd International Inv Tr (MWY), and Molten Ventures (GROW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) and Utilico Emerging Markets (LON:UEM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Utilico Emerging Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Assets. Utilico Emerging Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Utilico Emerging Markets has a net margin of 83.36% compared to Utilico Emerging Markets' net margin of 68.83%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 10.10% beat Utilico Emerging Markets' return on equity.
Utilico Emerging Markets received 12 more outperform votes than Pacific Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote while only 65.26% of users gave Utilico Emerging Markets an outperform vote.
45.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of Utilico Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Utilico Emerging Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utilico Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 15 more articles in the media than Utilico Emerging Markets. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Pacific Assets and 0 mentions for Utilico Emerging Markets. Utilico Emerging Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Utilico Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Pacific Assets pays out 952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Utilico Emerging Markets pays out 3,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Utilico Emerging Markets beats Pacific Assets on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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