ASTO vs. ACIC, JSGI, DGI9, AUGM, IGV, BASC, ARR, JARA, MMIT, and TV1
Should you be buying AssetCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AssetCo include abrdn China Investment (ACIC), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Income & Growth VCT (IGV), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Aurora Investment Trust (ARR), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), and Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AssetCo vs.
abrdn China Investment (LON:ACIC) and AssetCo (LON:ASTO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
80.7% of abrdn China Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of AssetCo shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of abrdn China Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of AssetCo shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
AssetCo has a consensus target price of GBX 40, indicating a potential upside of 33.09%. Given AssetCo's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AssetCo is more favorable than abrdn China Investment.
abrdn China Investment has a net margin of 0.00% compared to AssetCo's net margin of -102.58%. abrdn China Investment's return on equity of -9.37% beat AssetCo's return on equity.
AssetCo received 32 more outperform votes than abrdn China Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.73% of users gave AssetCo an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave abrdn China Investment an outperform vote.
AssetCo has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn China Investment. AssetCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn China Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
abrdn China Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share. AssetCo pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. abrdn China Investment pays out -2,407.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AssetCo pays out -1,428.6% 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.
In the previous week, abrdn China Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AssetCo'saverage media sentiment score.
abrdn China Investment has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AssetCo has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AssetCo beats abrdn China Investment on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ASTO) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
