Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (UEM) Competitors

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) and Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (LON:UEM) 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 analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, PNL or UEM?

Personal Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Utilico Emerging Markets Trust. Personal Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Utilico Emerging Markets Trust, 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
Personal Assets	£107.31M	15.05	£124.81M	£39.23	12.91
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust	£33.05M	12.35	£20.98M	£11.02	19.64

Does the media refer more to PNL or UEM?

In the previous week, Utilico Emerging Markets Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Personal Assets. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Utilico Emerging Markets Trust and 0 mentions for Personal Assets. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Personal Assets	Positive
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust	Neutral

Which has more risk and volatility, PNL or UEM?

Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Utilico Emerging Markets Trust has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PNL or UEM more profitable?

Personal Assets has a net margin of 116.31% compared to Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's net margin of 63.48%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 7.96% beat Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Personal Assets	116.31%	7.96%	1.96%
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust	63.48%	4.12%	7.22%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PNL or UEM?

Utilico Emerging Markets Trust received 16 more outperform votes than Personal Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.26% of users gave Utilico Emerging Markets Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Personal Assets	Outperform Votes 108 61.02%	Underperform Votes 69 38.98%
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust	Outperform Votes 124 65.26%	Underperform Votes 66 34.74%

Is PNL or UEM a better dividend stock?

Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Utilico Emerging Markets Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Personal Assets pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Utilico Emerging Markets Trust pays out 81.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of PNL or UEM?

46.0% of Personal Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.5% of Utilico Emerging Markets Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Utilico Emerging Markets Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Personal Assets beats Utilico Emerging Markets Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.