BUT vs. THRG, EWI, PHI, JLEN, EOT, NAS, USA, CHRY, GROW, and CORD
Should you be buying Brunner stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brunner include BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Molten Ventures (GROW), and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) and Brunner (LON:BUT) 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 earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays out -9,375.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brunner pays out 5,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brunner has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brunner has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brunner has a net margin of 76.73% compared to Brunner's net margin of 0.00%. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity of 3.90% beat Brunner's return on equity.
33.0% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.5% of Brunner shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.4% of Brunner shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Brunner had 9 more articles in the media than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Brunner and 0 mentions for BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. Brunner's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's score of 0.01 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Brunner received 28 more outperform votes than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote while only 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote.
Summary
Brunner beats BlackRock Throgmorton Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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