SOI vs. DGN, BSIF, JII, POLR, OCI, SWEF, and EAT
Should you be buying Schroder Oriental Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Oriental Income include Asia Dragon (DGN), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Polar Capital (POLR), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF), and European Assets Trust (EAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Asia Dragon (LON:DGN) and Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Schroder Oriental Income received 126 more outperform votes than Asia Dragon when rated by MarketBeat users.
Asia Dragon pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Asia Dragon pays out -786.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Schroder Oriental Income pays out -12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Schroder Oriental Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Schroder Oriental Income has higher revenue and earnings than Asia Dragon. Schroder Oriental Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Asia Dragon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Asia Dragon's return on equity of -3.78% beat Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity.
71.4% of Asia Dragon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Asia Dragon shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held 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.
Asia Dragon has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Schroder Oriental Income had 1 more articles in the media than Asia Dragon. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income and 0 mentions for Asia Dragon. Asia Dragon's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Schroder Oriental Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Schroder Oriental Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Schroder Oriental Income beats Asia Dragon on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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