ASTO vs. SBO, ESO, LIV, MINI, MIG, MIG3, CMPI, BSRT, AAVC, and RMMC
Should you be buying AssetCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AssetCo include Schroder British Opportunities Trust (SBO), EPE Special Opportunities (ESO), Livermore Investments (LIV), Miton UK Microcap (MINI), Mobeus Income & Growth 2 VCT (MIG), Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 (MIG3), CT Global Managed Portfolio Income (CMPI), Baker Steel Resources Trust (BSRT), Albion Venture Capital Trust (AAVC), and River and Mercantile UK Micro Cap (RMMC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder British Opportunities Trust (LON:SBO) and AssetCo (LON:ASTO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Schroder British Opportunities Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than AssetCo. AssetCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder British Opportunities Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Schroder British Opportunities Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Schroder British Opportunities Trust's net margin of -178.24%. AssetCo's return on equity of 0.00% beat Schroder British Opportunities Trust's return on equity.
66.0% of Schroder British Opportunities Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.9% of AssetCo shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Schroder British Opportunities Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of AssetCo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AssetCo's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Schroder British Opportunities Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
AssetCo received 32 more outperform votes than Schroder British Opportunities Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Schroder British Opportunities Trust beats AssetCo on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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