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Mineral & Financial Investments (MAFL) Competitors

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GBX 23.88 -0.62 (-2.53%)
As of 04/17/2025 10:49 AM Eastern

MAFL vs. STM, OFG, ALAI, JRS, ALM, VNC, SDV, HDIV, CHIB, and LBOW

Should you be buying Mineral & Financial Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mineral & Financial Investments include STM Group (STM), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), abrdn Latin American Income Fund (ALAI), JPMorgan Russian Securities (JRS), Allied Minds (ALM), Ventus VCT 2 C (VNC), Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (SDV), Henderson Diversified Income (HDIV), CT UK High Income Trust (CHIB), and ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Mineral & Financial Investments vs.

STM Group (LON:STM) and Mineral & Financial Investments (LON:MAFL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

STM Group received 90 more outperform votes than Mineral & Financial Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.01% of users gave Mineral & Financial Investments an outperform vote while only 57.76% of users gave STM Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
STM GroupOutperform Votes
201
57.76%
Underperform Votes
147
42.24%
Mineral & Financial InvestmentsOutperform Votes
111
62.01%
Underperform Votes
68
37.99%

Mineral & Financial Investments has a net margin of 10,025.00% compared to STM Group's net margin of 4.87%. Mineral & Financial Investments' return on equity of 19.22% beat STM Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
STM Group4.87% 4.17% 2.38%
Mineral & Financial Investments 10,025.00%19.22%11.52%

In the previous week, STM Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Mineral & Financial Investments'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
STM Group Neutral
Mineral & Financial Investments Neutral

27.4% of STM Group shares are held by institutional investors. 46.5% of STM Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.7% of Mineral & Financial Investments shares are held by company 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.

Mineral & Financial Investments has lower revenue, but higher earnings than STM Group. STM Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mineral & Financial Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
STM Group£30.06M0.00£1.47M£0.02N/A
Mineral & Financial Investments£20.32K423.46£2.04M£5.824.10

STM Group has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its stock price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mineral & Financial Investments has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

STM Group and Mineral & Financial Investments tied by winning 6 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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MAFL vs. The Competition

MetricMineral & Financial InvestmentsAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£8.61M£1.10B£3.70B£2.52B
Dividend Yield1.36%4.37%4.16%4.80%
P/E Ratio4.1023.5913.97131.32
Price / Sales423.462,232.991,660.40235,334.67
Price / Cash0.8761.1450.4928.39
Price / Book0.741.103.364.43
Net Income£2.04M£262.41M£1.18B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-11.56%0.37%0.50%1.32%
1 Month Performance18.81%1.79%0.48%-0.52%
1 Year Performance99.00%1.22%9.47%22.48%

Mineral & Financial Investments Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MAFL
Mineral & Financial Investments
N/AGBX 23.88
-2.5%
N/A+99.0%£8.61M£20,324.414.102Gap Down
STM
STM Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£35.53M£30.06M3,075.0048,300
OFG
Octopus Future Generations VCT
N/AGBX 84.50
flat
N/AN/A£34.75MN/A0.002,250High Trading Volume
ALAI
abrdn Latin American Income Fund
N/AN/AN/AN/A£34.41M£2.70M1,506.25N/A
JRS
JPMorgan Russian Securities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£33.56M£-259,516,000.0021.78N/A
ALM
Allied Minds
N/AN/AN/AN/A£33.54M£2.86M-2.6631Gap Down
High Trading Volume
VNC
Ventus VCT 2 C
N/AN/AN/AN/A£32.58M£9.47M4.08N/AGap Up
High Trading Volume
SDV
Chelverton UK Dividend Trust
N/AGBX 130
+4.8%
N/A-2.9%£29.18M£10.66M3.30N/A
HDIV
Henderson Diversified Income
N/AGBX 15.41
-1.6%
N/A+0.0%£28.06M£-30,190,000.00-385.25N/AGap Down
CHIB
CT UK High Income Trust
N/AGBX 92
flat
N/A+18.5%£28.02M£13.28M920.00N/ADividend Announcement
LBOW
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments
N/AGBX 23.11
-0.4%
N/A+4.8%£27.56M£4.33M-1.11N/A

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This page (LON:MAFL) was last updated on 4/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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