LIO vs. CGI, NESF, JEGI, PAC, PCGH, UEM, POLN, JUP, AAS, and ATR
Should you be buying Liontrust Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liontrust Asset Management include Canadian General Investments (CGI), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), Pacific Assets (PAC), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH), Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), and Schroders Investment Trusts - Schroder Asian Total Return Investment (ATR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Canadian General Investments (LON:CGI) 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 dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Liontrust Asset Management received 364 more outperform votes than Canadian General Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.42% of users gave Liontrust Asset Management an outperform vote while only 65.67% of users gave Canadian General Investments an outperform vote.
Canadian General Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Liontrust Asset Management. Canadian General Investments 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.
36.6% of Canadian General Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.2% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of Canadian General Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Canadian General Investments has a net margin of 86.93% compared to Canadian General Investments' net margin of 7.45%. Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity of 16.08% beat Canadian General Investments' return on equity.
Canadian General Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 58 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Canadian General Investments pays out 1,191.0% 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.
Canadian General Investments has a beta of 1.18, meaning that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liontrust Asset Management has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liontrust Asset Management has a consensus price target of GBX 755, suggesting a potential upside of 0.94%. Given Canadian General Investments' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Liontrust Asset Management is more favorable than Canadian General Investments.
In the previous week, Liontrust Asset Management had 2 more articles in the media than Canadian General Investments. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management and 0 mentions for Canadian General Investments. Canadian General Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Liontrust Asset Management's score of 0.00 indicating that Liontrust Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Liontrust Asset Management beats Canadian General Investments on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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