UTL vs. CTUK, BGS, AAIF, SST, NBLS, HNE, BGEU, BIPS, AEMC, and FEET
Should you be buying UIL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UIL include CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (CTUK), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund GBP (NBLS.L) (NBLS), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust (BGEU), Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment (AEMC), and Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust (FEET). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
UIL (LON:UTL) and CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (LON:CTUK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
UIL received 87 more outperform votes than CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than UIL. UIL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has a net margin of 91.69% compared to UIL's net margin of 0.00%. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust's return on equity of 12.54% beat UIL's return on equity.
In the previous week, UIL had 1 more articles in the media than CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for UIL and 0 mentions for CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust. UIL's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
85.1% of CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 77.8% of UIL shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
UIL has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. UIL pays out -1,509.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UIL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust beats UIL on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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