QLT vs. MYI, PIN, RAT, WTAN, FEV, JTC, PNL, BNKR, BHMG, and AJB
Should you be buying Quilter stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Quilter include Murray International (MYI), Pantheon International (PIN), Rathbones Group (RAT), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), JTC (JTC), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Bankers (BNKR), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), and AJ Bell (AJB). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Murray International (LON:MYI) and Quilter (LON:QLT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
In the previous week, Murray International had 2 more articles in the media than Quilter. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Murray International and 1 mentions for Quilter. Quilter's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Murray International's score of 0.00 indicating that Murray International is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Murray International has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Quilter. Murray International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quilter, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Murray International has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quilter has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Murray International pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Quilter pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Murray International pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Quilter pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Murray International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
46.1% of Murray International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of Quilter shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Murray International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Quilter shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Murray International received 57 more outperform votes than Quilter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.98% of users gave Murray International an outperform vote while only 61.21% of users gave Quilter an outperform vote.
Murray International has a net margin of 86.85% compared to Murray International's net margin of 0.91%. Quilter's return on equity of 8.03% beat Murray International's return on equity.
Quilter has a consensus target price of GBX 93.33, suggesting a potential downside of 16.44%. Given Murray International's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Quilter is more favorable than Murray International.
Summary
Murray International beats Quilter on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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