AV vs. SMT, AIBG, LGEN, ADM, PSH, STAN, ICP, SDR, FCIT, and PRU
Should you be buying Aviva stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aviva include Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), AIB Group (AIBG), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Admiral Group (ADM), Pershing Square (PSH), Standard Chartered (STAN), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), and Prudential (PRU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Aviva (LON:AV) and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LON:SMT) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust received 124 more outperform votes than Aviva when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Aviva an outperform vote.
Aviva currently has a consensus target price of GBX 516, suggesting a potential upside of 4.52%. Given Aviva's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Aviva is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
49.3% of Aviva shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Aviva shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Aviva had 3 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Aviva and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Aviva's score of 0.28 indicating that Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Aviva pays an annual dividend of GBX 33 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Aviva pays out 8,918.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Aviva has a net margin of 5.03% compared to Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Aviva's return on equity of 11.16% beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
Aviva has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Aviva has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aviva, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aviva beats Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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