UIL (UTL) Competitors

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

Is UTL or AEP a better dividend stock?

UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. UIL pays out -2,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays out 2,105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UIL is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, UTL or AEP?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
UIL	-£16.02M	-5.70	-£25.02M	-£0.30	-363.33
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	£364.23M	0.70	£55.60M	£1.14	570.18

Which has more risk & volatility, UTL or AEP?

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

Is UTL or AEP more profitable?

Anglo-Eastern Plantations has a net margin of 17.73% compared to UIL's net margin of 0.00%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' return on equity of 10.92% beat UIL's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
UIL	N/A	-16.40%	-3.94%
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	17.73%	10.92%	7.34%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in UTL or AEP?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
UIL	Outperform Votes 87 76.99%	Underperform Votes 26 23.01%
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	Outperform Votes 124 68.51%	Underperform Votes 57 31.49%

Does the media favor UTL or AEP?

In the previous week, UIL had 3 more articles in the media than Anglo-Eastern Plantations. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for UIL and 1 mentions for Anglo-Eastern Plantations. Anglo-Eastern Plantations' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat UIL's score of -0.03 indicating that Anglo-Eastern Plantations is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
UIL	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in UTL or AEP?

6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.0% of UIL shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats UIL on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.