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Kingswood (KWG) Competitors

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GBX 10.25 -0.25 (-2.38%)
(As of 12/20/2024 ET)

KWG vs. MNL, HHI, BIOG, NCYF, RECI, BPM, MTE, GRID, BOOK, and IBT

Should you be buying Kingswood stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kingswood include Manchester & London (MNL), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), The Biotech Growth Trust (BIOG), CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI), B.P. Marsh & Partners (BPM), Montanaro European Smaller (MTE), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), Literacy Capital (BOOK), and International Biotechnology (IBT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Kingswood vs.

Manchester & London (LON:MNL) and Kingswood (LON:KWG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Manchester & London has a net margin of 95.89% compared to Kingswood's net margin of -15.95%. Manchester & London's return on equity of 43.62% beat Kingswood's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Manchester & London95.89% 43.62% 27.70%
Kingswood -15.95%-20.03%3.99%

Manchester & London received 60 more outperform votes than Kingswood when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.75% of users gave Manchester & London an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Kingswood an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Manchester & LondonOutperform Votes
77
68.75%
Underperform Votes
35
31.25%
KingswoodOutperform Votes
17
53.13%
Underperform Votes
15
46.88%

Manchester & London has higher revenue and earnings than Kingswood. Kingswood is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Manchester & London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Manchester & London£126.36M2.27£121.16M£3.01237.87
Kingswood£91.19M0.77-£14.09M-£0.08-128.13

In the previous week, Manchester & London's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Kingswood'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Manchester & London Neutral
Kingswood Neutral

59.7% of Manchester & London shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of Kingswood shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Manchester & London shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.6% of Kingswood shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Manchester & London has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kingswood has a beta of -0.21, meaning that its share price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Manchester & London beats Kingswood on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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KWG vs. The Competition

MetricKingswoodAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£70.33M£1.09B£3.73B£1.92B
Dividend YieldN/A4.69%4.43%5.45%
P/E Ratio-128.13802.21418.741,880.82
Price / Sales0.771,455.431,744.90397,035.90
Price / Cash2.1964.7652.5328.78
Price / Book1.461.141.372.81
Net Income-£14.09M£64.95M£361.47M£156.11M
7 Day Performance-6.82%-1.95%-1.62%-2.03%
1 Month PerformanceN/A-0.25%0.23%21.85%
1 Year Performance-18.00%7.22%9.87%30.10%

Kingswood Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KWG
Kingswood
N/AGBX 10.25
-2.4%
N/A-18.0%£70.33M£91.19M-128.13421Gap Down
MNL
Manchester & London
N/AGBX 718
-0.6%
N/A+31.1%£287.92M£126.36M238.54N/A
HHI
Henderson High Income Trust
N/AGBX 164.55
-0.3%
N/A+4.9%£283.26M£38.61M715.44N/APositive News
BIOG
The Biotech Growth Trust
N/AGBX 874
-1.2%
N/A+2.5%£280.82M£80.35M422.22N/AInsider Trade
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
NCYF
CQS New City High Yield
N/AGBX 51.70
flat
N/A+3.2%£280.40M£23.34M1,720.00N/A
RECI
Real Estate Credit Investments
N/AGBX 123.50
+0.4%
N/A-2.7%£274.03M£31.10M1,235.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BPM
B.P. Marsh & Partners
0.3865 of 5 stars
GBX 735.49
-0.9%
GBX 625
-15.0%
+58.1%£271.03M£51.17M646.9316
MTE
Montanaro European Smaller
N/AGBX 141.50
-0.9%
N/A+2.7%£268.04M£18.23M1,768.75N/AHigh Trading Volume
GRID
Gresham House Energy Storage
N/AGBX 46.88
+4.2%
N/A-57.4%£266.75M£-100,100,000.00-227.00N/APositive News
BOOK
Literacy Capital
N/AGBX 440.25
-1.8%
N/A-6.5%£264.90M£29.26M1,347.066
IBT
International Biotechnology
N/AGBX 716
+1.4%
N/A+13.2%£264.63M£24.14M1,470.83N/AInsider Trade
Positive News

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This page (LON:KWG) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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