Ruffer Investment (RICA) Competitors

GBX 274
+0.50 (+0.18%)
(As of 04/26/2024 ET)

RICA vs. N91, IEM, FCSS, AGT, IHP, BRWM, TRY, EDIN, LWDB, and FSV

Should you be buying Ruffer Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ruffer Investment include Ninety One Group (N91), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), AVI Global Trust (AGT), IntegraFin (IHP), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), TR Property (TRY), Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Law Debenture (LWDB), and Fidelity Special Values (FSV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Ruffer Investment vs.

Ninety One Group (LON:N91) and Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) 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, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Ruffer Investment received 95 more outperform votes than Ninety One Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote while only 14.29% of users gave Ninety One Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Ninety One GroupOutperform Votes
2
14.29%
Underperform Votes
12
85.71%
Ruffer InvestmentOutperform Votes
97
63.82%
Underperform Votes
55
36.18%

Ninety One Group has higher revenue and earnings than Ruffer Investment. Ruffer Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ninety One Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ninety One Group£597.60M1.73£158.40M£0.18924.44
Ruffer Investment-£38.73M-26.81-£34.42M-£0.10-2,740.00

Ninety One Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 173, suggesting a potential upside of 3.97%. Given Ruffer Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ninety One Group is more favorable than Ruffer Investment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ninety One Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Ruffer Investment
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

In the previous week, Ninety One Group had 1 more articles in the media than Ruffer Investment. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ninety One Group and 0 mentions for Ruffer Investment. Ruffer Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ninety One Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ninety One Group Neutral
Ruffer Investment Neutral

31.7% of Ninety One Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 55.0% of Ninety One Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Ninety One Group has a net margin of 26.51% compared to Ninety One Group's net margin of 0.00%. Ruffer Investment's return on equity of 46.84% beat Ninety One Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ninety One Group26.51% 46.84% 1.09%
Ruffer Investment N/A -3.37%-3.05%

Ninety One Group has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Ninety One Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ninety One Group pays out 7,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ruffer Investment pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Ninety One Group beats Ruffer Investment on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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RICA vs. The Competition

MetricRuffer InvestmentAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.04B£786.12M£3.04B£1.54B
Dividend Yield1.13%12.75%4.57%11.74%
P/E Ratio-2,740.00978.14458.841,816.42
Price / Sales-26.812,809.592,744.51338,504.90
Price / Cash10.9956.0349.9827.69
Price / Book0.961.721.562.60
Net Income-£34.42M£54.03M£332.06M£175.47M
7 Day Performance1.29%1.10%1.06%1.39%
1 Month Performance3.20%-0.61%-0.06%4.09%
1 Year Performance-9.27%2.71%7.75%13.72%

Ruffer Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
N91
Ninety One Group
0.1656 of 5 stars
GBX 167.20
+0.2%
GBX 173
+3.5%
-6.8%£1.04B£597.60M928.891,180Gap Down
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
0 of 5 stars
GBX 387.50
+0.1%
N/A-6.3%£1.05B£91.79M1,614.58N/APositive News
FCSS
Fidelity China Special
0 of 5 stars
GBX 212.01
+2.7%
N/A-6.6%£1.01BN/A4,240.20N/ANews Coverage
AGT
AVI Global Trust
0 of 5 stars
GBX 235.97
+0.2%
N/A+25.8%£1.07B£137.36M842.76N/APositive News
IHP
IntegraFin
1.7674 of 5 stars
GBX 299.36
-0.2%
GBX 360
+20.3%
+11.3%£991.84M£134.90M1,995.73649
BRWM
BlackRock World Mining Trust
0 of 5 stars
GBX 563.95
+0.5%
N/A-10.7%£1.08B£-64,800,000.00-1,375.49147,000Positive News
TRY
TR Property
0 of 5 stars
GBX 310.70
+0.1%
N/A+4.0%£986.02M£-528,720,000.00-176.54N/A
EDIN
Edinburgh Investment
0 of 5 stars
GBX 709.20
-0.1%
N/A+6.8%£1.08B£229.34M545.54N/ADividend Increase
LWDB
Law Debenture
0 of 5 stars
GBX 835
flat
N/A+3.9%£1.10B£86.72M3,092.59260Positive News
FSV
Fidelity Special Values
0 of 5 stars
GBX 293.56
-0.2%
N/A+5.5%£951.42M£70.44M1,726.812,020Positive News

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This page (LON:RICA) was last updated on 4/27/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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