Camellia (CAM) Competitors

Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) and Camellia (LON:CAM) are both small-cap consumer defensive companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Is AEP or CAM a better dividend stock?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Camellia pays an annual dividend of GBX 146 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Camellia pays out -19.9% 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.

Which has more volatility and risk, AEP or CAM?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Camellia has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is AEP or CAM more profitable?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.74% compared to Camellia's net margin of -7.61%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 12.46% beat Camellia's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	17.74%	12.46%	7.34%
Camellia	-7.61%	-6.30%	-1.27%

Which has higher earnings & valuation, AEP or CAM?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than Camellia. Camellia is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anglo-Eastern Plantations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	£461.13M	0.80	£81.78M	£129.21	5.73
Camellia	£266.06M	0.47	-£20.24M	-£734.97	-6.18

Does the media refer more to AEP or CAM?

In the previous week, Camellia had 2 more articles in the media than Anglo-Eastern Plantations. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Camellia and 0 mentions for Anglo-Eastern Plantations. Camellia's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' score of 0.00 indicating that Camellia is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	Neutral
Camellia	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AEP or CAM?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 7 more outperform votes than Camellia when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote while only 68.02% of users gave Camellia an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	Outperform Votes 124 68.51%	Underperform Votes 57 31.49%
Camellia	Outperform Votes 117 68.02%	Underperform Votes 55 31.98%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in AEP or CAM?

6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Camellia shares are held by institutional investors. 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 69.5% of Camellia shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats Camellia on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.