UIL (UTL) Competitors

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

Which has more volatility and risk, UTL or AEP?

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.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor 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%

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%

Which has better valuation & earnings, 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	-5.44	-£25.02M	-£0.30	-346.67
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	£364.23M	0.72	£55.60M	£1.14	585.09

Does the media refer more to UTL or AEP?

In the previous week, UIL had 1 more articles in the media than Anglo-Eastern Plantations. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for UIL and 0 mentions for Anglo-Eastern Plantations. UIL's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Anglo-Eastern Plantations' score of 0.00 indicating that UIL is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
UIL	Positive
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	Neutral

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of UTL or AEP?

6.4% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of UIL shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 70.5% of Anglo-Eastern Plantations shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is UTL or AEP a better dividend stock?

UIL pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Anglo-Eastern Plantations pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. 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.

Do analysts rate UTL or AEP?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
UIL	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Anglo-Eastern Plantations	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Summary

Anglo-Eastern Plantations beats UIL on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.