UTL vs. MIX, MHN, HAN, ANIC, NSI, GOT, HOT, OSEC, VIP, and MIGO
Should you be buying UIL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UIL include Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), Hansa Investment (HAN), Agronomics (ANIC), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Global Opportunities Trust (GOT), Henderson Opportunities (HOT), Octopus AIM VCT 2 (OSEC), Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP), and MIGO Opportunities Trust (MIGO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (LON:MIX) and UIL (LON:UTL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, UIL had 1 more articles in the media than Mobeus Income & Growth VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for UIL and 0 mentions for Mobeus Income & Growth VCT. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat UIL's score of 0.00 indicating that UIL is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UIL received 35 more outperform votes than Mobeus Income & Growth VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.99% of users gave UIL an outperform vote while only 65.82% of users gave Mobeus Income & Growth VCT an outperform vote.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UIL. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UIL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.3%. UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT pays out -45,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UIL pays out -1,509.4% 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. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UIL has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
UIL's return on equity of -3.07% beat Mobeus Income & Growth VCT's return on equity.
Summary
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT and UIL tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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