MTU vs. AJOT, UAV, CLIG, JZCP, BPM, HANA, AUGM, SEC, JARA, and ARR
Should you be buying Montanaro UK Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies include AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (AJOT), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), B.P. Marsh & Partners (BPM), Hansa Investment (HANA), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), and Aurora (ARR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust (LON:AJOT) and Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (LON:MTU) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
AVI Japan Opportunity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. AVI Japan Opportunity Trust pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies received 69 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has higher revenue and earnings than AVI Japan Opportunity Trust. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AVI Japan Opportunity Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a net margin of 88.19% compared to Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. AVI Japan Opportunity Trust's return on equity of 9.97% beat Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' return on equity.
56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies had 3 more articles in the media than AVI Japan Opportunity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Montanaro UK Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for AVI Japan Opportunity Trust. AVI Japan Opportunity Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies beats AVI Japan Opportunity Trust on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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