Old Mutual (OMU) Competitors

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

Which has better earnings and valuation, OMU or SLA?

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
Old Mutual	£103.42B	0.02	£7.95B	£0.08	709.81
Standard Life Aberdeen	£3.60B	1.66	N/A	£37.20	7.37

Is OMU or SLA a better dividend stock?

Old Mutual pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Standard Life Aberdeen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. 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. Standard Life Aberdeen pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the media prefer OMU or SLA?

In the previous week, Standard Life Aberdeen's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Old Mutual's score of -0.64 indicating that Standard Life Aberdeen is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Old Mutual	Negative
Standard Life Aberdeen	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders believe in OMU or SLA?

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor OMU or SLA?

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

Is OMU or SLA 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
Old Mutual	7.69%	13.86%	0.84%
Standard Life Aberdeen	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Old Mutual beats Standard Life Aberdeen on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.