AEP vs. AT, NFG, PAM, UTL, BHI, CTP, ET, PVR, CLP, and CEG
Should you be buying Anglo-Eastern Plantations stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Anglo-Eastern Plantations include Ashtead Technology (AT), Next 15 Group (NFG), Premier Asset Management Group (PAM), UIL (UTL), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHI), Castleton Technology (CTP), Establishment Investment Trust (ET), Providence Resources (PVR), Clear Leisure (CLP), and Challenger Energy Group (CEG). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations vs.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Ashtead Technology (LON:AT) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 114 more outperform votes than Ashtead Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ashtead Technology an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.
Ashtead Technology has a consensus price target of GBX 830, indicating a potential upside of 53.42%. Given Ashtead Technology's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ashtead Technology is more favorable than Anglo-Eastern Plantations.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashtead Technology has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than Ashtead Technology. Anglo-Eastern Plantations is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ashtead Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Ashtead Technology's net margin of 17.37%. Ashtead Technology's return on equity of 23.56% beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity.
In the previous week, Anglo-Eastern Plantations and Anglo-Eastern Plantations both had 1 articles in the media. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Ashtead Technology's score of 0.00 indicating that Anglo-Eastern Plantations is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Ashtead Technology pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ashtead Technology pays out 3.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Ashtead Technology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ashtead Technology beats Anglo-Eastern Plantations on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AEP) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
