VOF vs. APAX, TMPL, JEDT, NBPE, ESCT, SDP, SYNC, JFJ, MRCH, and TFIF
Should you be buying VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund include Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Temple Bar (TMPL), JPMorgan European Discovery Trust (JEDT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Syncona (SYNC), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), and TwentyFour Income (TFIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (LON:VOF) and Apax Global Alpha (LON:APAX) 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 risk, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Apax Global Alpha. Apax Global Alpha is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Apax Global Alpha pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund pays out -632.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Apax Global Alpha pays out -24,000.0% 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. Apax Global Alpha is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Apax Global Alpha had 2 more articles in the media than VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Apax Global Alpha and 0 mentions for VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund. VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Apax Global Alpha's score of -0.56 indicating that VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Apax Global Alpha has a net margin of 0.00% compared to VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund's net margin of -295.65%. VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund's return on equity of -1.30% beat Apax Global Alpha's return on equity.
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Apax Global Alpha has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
52.4% of VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of Apax Global Alpha shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of Apax Global Alpha shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund received 3 more outperform votes than Apax Global Alpha when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.54% of users gave VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 67.26% of users gave Apax Global Alpha an outperform vote.
Summary
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund beats Apax Global Alpha on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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