OMU vs. SLA, PHNX, HSD, OML, PRU, ADM, PSH, ICP, SDR, and HL
Should you be buying Old Mutual stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Old Mutual include Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA), Phoenix Group (PHNX), Hansard Global (HSD), Old Mutual (OML), Prudential (PRU), Admiral Group (ADM), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), and Hargreaves Lansdown (HL).
Standard Life Aberdeen (LON:SLA) and Old Mutual (LON:OMU) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends and institutional ownership.
48.8% 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Old Mutual has a net margin of 7.11% compared to Old Mutual's net margin of 0.00%. Standard Life Aberdeen's return on equity of 12.85% beat Old Mutual's return on equity.
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.
In the previous week, Old Mutual had 2 more articles in the media than Standard Life Aberdeen. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Old Mutual and 0 mentions for Standard Life Aberdeen. Old Mutual's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Standard Life Aberdeen'saverage media sentiment score.
Standard Life Aberdeen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Old Mutual pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Standard Life Aberdeen pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Old Mutual pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Old Mutual has a consensus price target of GBX 59, suggesting a potential upside of 32.58%. Given Standard Life Aberdeen's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Old Mutual is more favorable than Standard Life Aberdeen.
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.
Summary
Old Mutual beats Standard Life Aberdeen on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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