LWI vs. BGS, CTUK, AAIF, BIOG, BGEU, HNE, GRID, JAGI, CTPE, and HINT Should you be buying Lowland Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lowland Investment include Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (CTUK), abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), The Biotech Growth Trust (BIOG), Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust (BGEU), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), CT Private Equity Trust (CTPE), and Henderson International Income Trust (HINT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Lowland Investment (LON:LWI ) and Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (LON:BGS ) 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, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Lowland Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lowland Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lowland Investment has a net margin of 92.09% compared to Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's net margin of 0.00%. Lowland Investment's return on equity of 15.94% beat Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's return on equity.
10.6% of Lowland Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of Lowland Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Lowland Investment has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lowland Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Lowland Investment pays out 3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays out -384.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon had 1 more articles in the media than Lowland Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon and 1 mentions for Lowland Investment. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Lowland Investment's score of -0.05 indicating that Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lowland Investment received 11 more outperform votes than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.52% of users gave Lowland Investment an outperform vote while only 62.05% of users gave Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon an outperform vote.
Summary Lowland Investment beats Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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