Old Mutual (OMU) Competitors

Standard Life Aberdeen (LON:SLA) and Old Mutual (LON:OMU) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking and profitability.

Does the media refer more to SLA or OMU?

In the previous week, Old Mutual had 1 more articles in the media than Standard Life Aberdeen. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Old Mutual and 0 mentions for Standard Life Aberdeen. Old Mutual's average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Standard Life Aberdeen's score of 0.00 indicating that Old Mutual is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Standard Life Aberdeen	Neutral
Old Mutual	Neutral

Is SLA or OMU more profitable?

Old Mutual has a net margin of 7.69% compared to Standard Life Aberdeen's net margin of 0.00%. Old Mutual's return on equity of 13.86% beat Standard Life Aberdeen's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Standard Life Aberdeen	N/A	N/A	N/A
Old Mutual	7.69%	13.86%	0.84%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, SLA or OMU?

Old Mutual has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Aberdeen. Standard Life Aberdeen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Mutual, 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
Standard Life Aberdeen	£3.60B	0.00	N/A	£37.20	N/A
Old Mutual	£103.42B	0.02	£7.95B	£0.08	697.50

Is SLA or OMU a better dividend stock?

Standard Life Aberdeen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share. Old Mutual pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Standard Life Aberdeen pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Old Mutual pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SLA or OMU?

Standard Life Aberdeen received 281 more outperform votes than Old Mutual when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Standard Life Aberdeen an outperform vote while only 65.85% of users gave Old Mutual an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Standard Life Aberdeen	Outperform Votes 308 70.00%	Underperform Votes 132 30.00%
Old Mutual	Outperform Votes 27 65.85%	Underperform Votes 14 34.15%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in SLA or OMU?

50.3% of Old Mutual shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Old Mutual shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Old Mutual beats Standard Life Aberdeen on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.