BUR vs. IIG, ABDN, RCP, MNKS, HICL, TRIG, JGGI, EMG, INPP, and STJ
Should you be buying Burford Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Burford Capital include Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), abrdn (ABDN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Monks (MNKS), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Man Group (EMG), International Public Partnerships (INPP), and St. James's Place (STJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Intuitive Investments Group (LON:IIG) and Burford Capital (LON:BUR) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
Burford Capital has a net margin of 56.17% compared to Burford Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Intuitive Investments Group's return on equity of 26.48% beat Burford Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Burford Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Intuitive Investments Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Burford Capital and 1 mentions for Intuitive Investments Group. Intuitive Investments Group's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Burford Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Burford Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Burford Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Intuitive Investments Group. Intuitive Investments Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Burford Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intuitive Investments Group has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Burford Capital has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
60.8% of Burford Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 13.4% of Intuitive Investments Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Burford Capital shares are held by 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.
Burford Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 1,710, indicating a potential upside of 37.90%. Given Intuitive Investments Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Burford Capital is more favorable than Intuitive Investments Group.
Burford Capital received 380 more outperform votes than Intuitive Investments Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Burford Capital beats Intuitive Investments Group on 15 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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