UTL vs. HEIT, CMPG, MIX, OSEC, SHRS, PMI, NSI, GOT, HAN, and ARTL
Should you be buying UIL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UIL include Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), CT Global Managed Portfolio Growth (CMPG), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Octopus AIM VCT 2 (OSEC), Shires Income (SHRS), Premier Miton Group (PMI), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Global Opportunities Trust (GOT), Hansa Investment (HAN), and Alpha Real Trust (ARTL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
UIL (LON:UTL) and Harmony Energy Income Trust (LON:HEIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
In the previous week, UIL had 1 more articles in the media than Harmony Energy Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for UIL and 0 mentions for Harmony Energy Income Trust. Harmony Energy Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat UIL's score of -0.33 indicating that Harmony Energy Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Harmony Energy Income Trust has a consensus price target of GBX 123.50, suggesting a potential upside of 157.29%. Given Harmony Energy Income Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Harmony Energy Income Trust is more favorable than UIL.
Harmony Energy Income Trust has a net margin of 84.82% compared to UIL's net margin of 0.00%. Harmony Energy Income Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat UIL's return on equity.
UIL received 80 more outperform votes than Harmony Energy Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 77.78% of users gave Harmony Energy Income Trust an outperform vote while only 76.99% of users gave UIL an outperform vote.
UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Harmony Energy Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.7%. UIL pays out -1,509.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Harmony Energy Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than UIL.
62.7% of Harmony Energy Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 77.8% of UIL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of Harmony Energy Income Trust shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Harmony Energy Income Trust beats UIL on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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