GSEO vs. STS, SJG, GSF, BOOK, AIE, GABI, BRK, HINT, GRID, and HHI
Should you be buying VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities include STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS), Schroder Japan Trust (SJG), Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), Literacy Capital (BOOK), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), Henderson International Income Trust (HINT), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), and Henderson High Income Trust (HHI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust (LON:STS) and VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (LON:GSEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust received 75 more outperform votes than VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users.
14.0% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.6% of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has a net margin of 72.77% compared to VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities' net margin of 56.58%. STS Global Income & Growth Trust's return on equity of 3.90% beat VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities' return on equity.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays out -17,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat STS Global Income & Growth Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that STS Global Income & Growth Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than STS Global Income & Growth Trust. STS Global Income & Growth Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities beats STS Global Income & Growth Trust on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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