EGL vs. ICGT, AGT.LN, JESC, MRCH, VOF, BGSC, SDP, ESCT, GSCT, and PEY
Should you be buying Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), and Princess Private Equity (PEY). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust vs.
ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust (LON:EGL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust has a net margin of 192.30% compared to ICG Enterprise Trust's net margin of 58.54%. ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity of 2.61% beat Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ICG Enterprise Trust and 1 mentions for Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat ICG Enterprise Trust's score of 1.68 indicating that Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
65.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.9% of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by 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.
ICG Enterprise Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 34 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 67.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust pays out -89.7% 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. Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust received 75 more outperform votes than ICG Enterprise Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.91% of users gave Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave ICG Enterprise Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
ICG Enterprise Trust beats Ecofin Global Utilities and Infrastructure Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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