MUT vs. BBGI, IHP, FSV, SAIN, RICA, OTV2, APEO, TRY, MRCH, and GSCT
Should you be buying Murray Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murray Income Trust include BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), IntegraFin (IHP), Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), TR Property (TRY), Merchants Trust (MRCH), and The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Murray Income Trust (LON:MUT) and BBGI Global Infrastructure (LON:BBGI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Murray Income Trust has a net margin of 90.28% compared to BBGI Global Infrastructure's net margin of 86.99%. Murray Income Trust's return on equity of 7.98% beat BBGI Global Infrastructure's return on equity.
Murray Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Murray Income Trust pays out 5,694.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays out 13,333.3% 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, Murray Income Trust and Murray Income Trust both had 2 articles in the media. Murray Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat BBGI Global Infrastructure's score of -0.20 indicating that Murray Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Murray Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than BBGI Global Infrastructure. Murray Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BBGI Global Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Murray Income Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BBGI Global Infrastructure has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.8% of Murray Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Murray Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Murray Income Trust received 55 more outperform votes than BBGI Global Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.37% of users gave Murray Income Trust an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave BBGI Global Infrastructure an outperform vote.
Summary
Murray Income Trust beats BBGI Global Infrastructure on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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