MNL vs. AGT, IEM, N91, GSS, FCSS, TRY, CGT, FSV, RICA, and JPE
Should you be buying Manchester & London stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Manchester & London include AVI Global Trust (AGT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Ninety One Group (N91), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Capital Gearing (CGT), Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Ruffer Investment (RICA), and JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Growth (JPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AVI Global Trust (LON:AGT) and Manchester & London (LON:MNL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.
34.4% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.6% of Manchester & London shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Manchester & London shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
AVI Global Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Manchester & London. Manchester & London is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AVI Global Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AVI Global Trust has a net margin of 97.65% compared to AVI Global Trust's net margin of 96.54%. AVI Global Trust's return on equity of 46.46% beat Manchester & London's return on equity.
AVI Global Trust has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Manchester & London has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Manchester & London pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. AVI Global Trust pays out 1,428.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Manchester & London pays out 540.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Manchester & London is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Manchester & London received 67 more outperform votes than AVI Global Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Manchester & London an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave AVI Global Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Manchester & London had 7 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Manchester & London and 0 mentions for AVI Global Trust. AVI Global Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Manchester & London's score of 0.00 indicating that Manchester & London is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Manchester & London beats AVI Global Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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