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Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU) Competitors

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MTU vs. SOI, DGN, ESCT, VOF, EWI, CORD, SYNC, BRSC, GCP, and P2P

Should you be buying Montanaro UK Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies include Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Syncona (SYNC), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), and P2P Global Investments (P2P). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies vs.

Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (LON:MTU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.

Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Schroder Oriental Income received 57 more outperform votes than Montanaro UK Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.85% of users gave Schroder Oriental Income an outperform vote while only 68.32% of users gave Montanaro UK Smaller Companies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Schroder Oriental IncomeOutperform Votes
126
68.85%
Underperform Votes
57
31.15%
Montanaro UK Smaller CompaniesOutperform Votes
69
68.32%
Underperform Votes
32
31.68%

Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Schroder Oriental Income pays out 24,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays out 4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a net margin of 88.19% compared to Schroder Oriental Income's net margin of 0.00%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' return on equity of 9.97% beat Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Schroder Oriental IncomeN/A -3.78% -2.12%
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies 88.19%9.97%5.77%

33.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.5% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Montanaro UK Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income. Schroder Oriental Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Montanaro UK Smaller Companies'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Schroder Oriental Income Neutral
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Neutral

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Oriental Income. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder Oriental Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Schroder Oriental Income-£18.81M-35.43-£25.91M£0.055,460.00
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies£20.32M8.32£17.92M£0.11918.18

Summary

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies beats Schroder Oriental Income on 13 of the 16 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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MTU vs. The Competition

MetricMontanaro UK Smaller CompaniesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£169.05M£860.59M£3.48B£1.45B
Dividend Yield4.36%13.34%4.53%11.41%
P/E Ratio918.18768.79428.801,587.66
Price / Sales8.3213,400.572,052.43225,724.00
Price / Cash16.2085.7549.9934.26
Price / Book0.911.751.482.86
Net Income£17.92M£61.47M£346.54M£136.51M
7 Day Performance-4.72%-0.21%0.19%-0.55%
1 Month Performance-4.27%-0.49%0.73%3.42%
1 Year Performance5.65%10.36%15.81%100.47%

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTU
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 101
+0.5%
N/A+5.3%£169.05M£20.32M918.18N/A
SOI
Schroder Oriental Income
N/AGBX 273
+0.6%
N/A+11.0%£666.50M£-18,810,000.005,460.00180
DGN
Asia Dragon
N/AGBX 422
-0.7%
N/A+21.8%£660.51M£-36,340,000.00-1,011.90N/AHigh Trading Volume
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 166.40
-0.7%
N/A+10.3%£656.33M£97.50M792.38305
VOF
VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund
N/AGBX 435
+1.5%
N/A-7.3%£654.59M£201.32M580.00125
EWI
Edinburgh Worldwide
N/AGBX 171.40
+1.9%
N/A+16.0%£646.23M£-74,310,000.00-779.09N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
CORD
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
N/AGBX 83.60
flat
N/A+14.8%£640.14M£102.87M836.00N/A
SYNC
Syncona
N/AGBX 99.70
+0.2%
N/A-20.5%£636.02M£30.75M9,950.001,208
BRSC
BlackRock Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,346
+0.3%
N/A+4.7%£633.97M£-25,360,000.00-1,976.56N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
GCP
GCP Infrastructure Investments
N/AGBX 73
+1.2%
N/A+2.9%£633.50M£26.98M-41.951,950
P2P
P2P Global Investments
N/AGBX 826
-0.2%
N/AN/A£617.42M£119.18M20.91N/A

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This page (LON:MTU) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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