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UIL (UTL) Competitors

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GBX 105 -4.00 (-3.67%)
As of 04/17/2025 06:06 AM Eastern

UTL vs. AEP, NFG, PAM, BHI, GMP, CTP, ET, PVR, CEG, and CLP

Should you be buying UIL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UIL include Anglo-Eastern Plantations (AEP), Next 15 Group (NFG), Premier Asset Management Group (PAM), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHI), Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust (GMP), Castleton Technology (CTP), Establishment Investment Trust (ET), Providence Resources (PVR), Challenger Energy Group (CEG), and Clear Leisure (CLP). These companies are all part of the "utilities" industry.

UIL vs.

UIL (LON:UTL) and Anglo-Eastern Plantations (LON:AEP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Anglo-Eastern Plantations received 37 more outperform votes than UIL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.99% of users gave UIL an outperform vote while only 68.51% of users gave Anglo-Eastern Plantations an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
UILOutperform Votes
87
76.99%
Underperform Votes
26
23.01%
Anglo-Eastern PlantationsOutperform Votes
124
68.51%
Underperform Votes
57
31.49%

In the previous week, UIL's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Anglo-Eastern Plantations'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
UIL Neutral
Anglo-Eastern Plantations Neutral

UIL has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has higher revenue and earnings than UIL. UIL is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Anglo-Eastern Plantations, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
UIL-£16.90M-5.50-£26.39M-£29.84-3.52
Anglo-Eastern Plantations£461.13M0.81£81.78M£129.215.80

6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of UIL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held 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.

UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. UIL pays out -26.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. UIL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

UIL has a net margin of 156.15% compared to Anglo-Eastern Plantations' net margin of 17.74%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 12.46% beat UIL's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
UIL156.15% -16.21% -3.94%
Anglo-Eastern Plantations 17.74%12.46%7.34%

Summary

Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats UIL on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UTL vs. The Competition

MetricUILAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£92.87M£1.10B£3.70B£2.50B
Dividend Yield7.08%4.36%4.15%4.79%
P/E Ratio-3.5223.5313.96130.25
Price / Sales-5.502,227.831,657.68234,001.07
Price / Cash145.0060.9950.4028.23
Price / Book0.641.103.344.41
Net Income-£26.39M£261.75M£1.24B£5.87B
1 Month Performance-4.62%1.32%0.30%-1.38%
1 Year Performance-1.41%1.65%14.75%41.26%

UIL Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UTL
UIL
N/AGBX 105
-3.7%
N/A+1.0%£92.87M£-16,899,017.20-3.52520Dividend Announcement
Gap Down
AEP
Anglo-Eastern Plantations
N/AGBX 735.20
+0.2%
N/A+1.9%£367.56M£461.13M5.6912,671
NFG
Next 15 Group
3.3247 of 5 stars
GBX 237
+1.9%
GBX 660
+178.5%
-74.5%£239.19M£741.75M3.892,130Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
PAM
Premier Asset Management Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£194.15M£53.26M16.386,286Gap Down
BHI
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£99.66M£3.93M40.952,980Gap Up
GMP
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust
N/AGBX 8
flat
N/AN/A£82.67M£540.33M27.51N/A
CTP
Castleton Technology
N/AN/AN/AN/A£77.42M£25.08M20.60169
ET
Establishment Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£43.40M£-2,924,000.00-10.9612,600Gap Up
PVR
Providence Resources
N/AN/AN/AN/A£34.84MN/A-3.192Gap Down
CEG
Challenger Energy Group
N/AGBX 8.82
+0.8%
N/A+5,778.4%£27.15M£5.19M-1.3213,400
CLP
Clear Leisure
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.23M£39,000.00-13.504Gap Up

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This page (LON:UTL) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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