DUKE vs. LIO, PCFT, HONY, FSFL, CHRY, JPGI, JUGI, JEGI, CGI, and GHE
Should you be buying Duke Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Capital include Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Pollen Street (HONY), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), Canadian General Investments (CGI), and Gresham House (GHE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Duke Capital (LON:DUKE) and Liontrust Asset Management (LON:LIO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Liontrust Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than Duke Capital. Duke Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liontrust Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duke Capital presently has a consensus target price of GBX 55, indicating a potential upside of 69.23%. Liontrust Asset Management has a consensus target price of GBX 755, indicating a potential downside of 8.04%. Given Duke Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Duke Capital is more favorable than Liontrust Asset Management.
52.1% of Duke Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Duke Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Liontrust Asset Management received 300 more outperform votes than Duke Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.42% of users gave Liontrust Asset Management an outperform vote while only 73.97% of users gave Duke Capital an outperform vote.
Duke Capital has a net margin of 49.94% compared to Liontrust Asset Management's net margin of 7.45%. Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity of 8.84% beat Duke Capital's return on equity.
Duke Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Duke Capital pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Liontrust Asset Management pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Duke Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Liontrust Asset Management had 3 more articles in the media than Duke Capital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management and 1 mentions for Duke Capital. Duke Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Liontrust Asset Management's score of 0.49 indicating that Duke Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duke Capital has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liontrust Asset Management has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duke Capital and Liontrust Asset Management tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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