EnQuest (ENQ) Competitors

Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (LON:ATR) and EnQuest (LON:ENQ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Do analysts recommend ATR or ENQ?

EnQuest has a consensus target price of GBX 27, indicating a potential upside of 128.43%. Given EnQuest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe EnQuest is more favorable than Schroder Asian Total Return Inv..

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
EnQuest	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do institutionals and insiders believe in ATR or ENQ?

54.8% of Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of EnQuest shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.3% of EnQuest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is ATR or ENQ more profitable?

Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. has a net margin of 88.95% compared to EnQuest's net margin of 1.59%. Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.'s return on equity of 14.92% beat EnQuest's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.	88.95%	14.92%	4.75%
EnQuest	1.59%	4.40%	7.54%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ATR or ENQ?

EnQuest received 557 more outperform votes than Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.19% of users gave Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave EnQuest an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.	Outperform Votes 86 67.19%	Underperform Votes 42 32.81%
EnQuest	Outperform Votes 643 60.21%	Underperform Votes 425 39.79%

Does the media refer more to ATR or ENQ?

In the previous week, EnQuest had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for EnQuest and 0 mentions for Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.. EnQuest's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.'s score of 0.10 indicating that EnQuest is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.	Neutral
EnQuest	Positive

Which has better valuation & earnings, ATR or ENQ?

Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EnQuest. Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EnQuest, 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
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.	£75.15M	6.20	£66.84M	£71.47	6.97
EnQuest	£1.59B	0.17	£25.24M	£0.88	13.49

Which has more risk and volatility, ATR or ENQ?

Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EnQuest has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

EnQuest beats Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.