EWI vs. THRG, BUT, EOT, JLEN, IPX, PHI, NAS, FSG, FSFL, and HSL
Should you be buying Edinburgh Worldwide stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Edinburgh Worldwide include BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Brunner (BUT), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Foresight Group (FSG), Foresight Solar (FSFL), and Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Edinburgh Worldwide (LON:EWI) and BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and risk.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity of -2.60% beat Edinburgh Worldwide's return on equity.
In the previous week, Edinburgh Worldwide had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Edinburgh Worldwide and 0 mentions for BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Edinburgh Worldwide's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust received 32 more outperform votes than Edinburgh Worldwide when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote while only 57.73% of users gave Edinburgh Worldwide an outperform vote.
8.2% of Edinburgh Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of Edinburgh Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.9% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust 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.
Edinburgh Worldwide has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Edinburgh Worldwide. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edinburgh Worldwide, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust beats Edinburgh Worldwide on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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