MYI vs. QLT, PIN, RAT, WTAN, FEV, JTC, AJB, PNL, BNKR, and HVPE
Should you be buying Murray International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Murray International include Quilter (QLT), Pantheon International (PIN), Rathbones Group (RAT), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), JTC (JTC), AJ Bell (AJB), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Bankers (BNKR), and HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE). 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
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 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.
In the previous week, Murray International had 1 more articles in the media than Quilter. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Murray International and 0 mentions for Quilter. Murray International's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Quilter'saverage media sentiment score.
46.1% of Murray International shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Quilter shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Murray International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Quilter shares are held by company 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.
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.
Murray International has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quilter has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Quilter has a consensus price target of GBX 93.33, suggesting a potential downside of 16.14%. Given Quilter's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Quilter is more favorable than Murray International.
Murray International has a net margin of 86.85% compared to Quilter's net margin of 0.91%. Murray International's return on equity of 8.03% beat Quilter's return on equity.
Summary
Murray International beats Quilter on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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