ABDN vs. BUR, JGGI, MNKS, HICL, RCP, STJ, TRIG, INPP, EMG, and 3IN
Should you be buying abrdn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn include Burford Capital (BUR), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Monks (MNKS), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), St. James's Place (STJ), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Man Group (EMG), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Burford Capital (LON:BUR) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Burford Capital received 373 more outperform votes than abrdn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.51% of users gave Burford Capital an outperform vote while only 13.21% of users gave abrdn an outperform vote.
abrdn has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burford Capital has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
39.5% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.7% of Burford Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Burford Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Burford Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Burford Capital pays out 456.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Burford Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than abrdn.
Burford Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 1,710, indicating a potential upside of 36.36%. Given Burford Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Burford Capital is more favorable than abrdn.
Burford Capital has a net margin of 56.59% compared to abrdn's net margin of 0.07%. Burford Capital's return on equity of 25.67% beat abrdn's return on equity.
In the previous week, abrdn had 2 more articles in the media than Burford Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for abrdn and 1 mentions for Burford Capital. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Burford Capital's score of 0.56 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Burford Capital beats abrdn on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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