ASTO vs. MIX, TORO, ASEI, JARA, LTI, MTU, ACIC, CLIG, JSGI, and PU13
Should you be buying AssetCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AssetCo include Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust (ASEI), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), Lindsell Train Investment Trust (LTI), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU), abrdn China Investment (ACIC), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), and Puma VCT 13 (PU13). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AssetCo vs.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (LON:MIX) and AssetCo (LON:ASTO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT has higher revenue and earnings than AssetCo. AssetCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobeus Income & Growth VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
44.6% of AssetCo shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Mobeus Income & Growth VCT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of AssetCo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.2%. AssetCo pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT pays out 179.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AssetCo pays out -34.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT received 20 more outperform votes than AssetCo when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.73% of users gave AssetCo an outperform vote while only 65.82% of users gave Mobeus Income & Growth VCT an outperform vote.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT has a net margin of 73.26% compared to AssetCo's net margin of -37.31%. Mobeus Income & Growth VCT's return on equity of 8.01% beat AssetCo's return on equity.
AssetCo has a consensus target price of GBX 40, indicating a potential upside of 26.58%. Given AssetCo's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AssetCo is more favorable than Mobeus Income & Growth VCT.
In the previous week, Mobeus Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AssetCo'saverage media sentiment score.
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT has a beta of 0.09, meaning that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AssetCo has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mobeus Income & Growth VCT beats AssetCo on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:ASTO) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
