AIE vs. GSF, BIPS, SST, JAGI, HNE, LWI, HINT, BIOG, BOOK, and SJG
Should you be buying Ashoka India Equity Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashoka India Equity Investment include Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust (SST), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Lowland (LWI), Henderson International Income Trust (HINT), The Biotech Growth Trust (BIOG), Literacy Capital (BOOK), and Schroder Japan Trust (SJG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ashoka India Equity Investment (LON:AIE) and Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (LON:GSF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Ashoka India Equity Investment. Ashoka India Equity Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gore Street Energy Storage Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has a net margin of 81.80% compared to Ashoka India Equity Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's return on equity of 8.27% beat Ashoka India Equity Investment's return on equity.
Ashoka India Equity Investment has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ashoka India Equity Investment had 4 more articles in the media than Gore Street Energy Storage Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ashoka India Equity Investment and 0 mentions for Gore Street Energy Storage Fund. Ashoka India Equity Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Ashoka India Equity Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has a consensus price target of GBX 85, suggesting a potential upside of 42.86%. Given Gore Street Energy Storage Fund's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gore Street Energy Storage Fund is more favorable than Ashoka India Equity Investment.
Ashoka India Equity Investment received 480 more outperform votes than Gore Street Energy Storage Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.54% of users gave Ashoka India Equity Investment an outperform vote while only 16.22% of users gave Gore Street Energy Storage Fund an outperform vote.
49.2% of Ashoka India Equity Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 14.6% of Ashoka India Equity Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Gore Street Energy Storage Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund beats Ashoka India Equity Investment on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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