BPT vs. CLDN, MRC, WWH, TEM, JAM, HVPE, PNL, FEV, WTAN, and RAT
Should you be buying Bridgepoint Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridgepoint Group include Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Mercantile (MRC), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), JPMorgan American (JAM), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), and Rathbones Group (RAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) and Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) 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 institutional ownership, risk, dividends, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Caledonia Investments received 133 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Caledonia Investments an outperform vote.
Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Caledonia Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Bridgepoint Group 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. Caledonia Investments pays out 2,969.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Caledonia Investments has a net margin of 75.54% compared to Bridgepoint Group's net margin of 21.98%. Bridgepoint Group's return on equity of 9.47% beat Caledonia Investments' return on equity.
Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridgepoint Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 249.50, indicating a potential upside of 6.17%. Given Bridgepoint Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Caledonia Investments.
In the previous week, Caledonia Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Caledonia Investments and 1 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Bridgepoint Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Caledonia Investments' score of -0.83 indicating that Bridgepoint Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
21.5% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 26.8% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Caledonia Investments has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bridgepoint Group. Caledonia Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Bridgepoint Group beats Caledonia Investments on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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