SAIN vs. MUT, BBGI, OTV2, APEO, MRCH, FSV, RICA, GSCT, IHP, and SDP
Should you be buying Scottish American Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish American Investment include Murray Income Trust (MUT), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Ruffer Investment (RICA), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), IntegraFin (IHP), and Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and Murray Income Trust (LON:MUT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murray Income Trust has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Murray Income Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Scottish American Investment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Murray Income Trust and 1 mentions for Scottish American Investment. Murray Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Murray Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Murray Income Trust received 95 more outperform votes than Scottish American Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Scottish American Investment an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Murray Income Trust an outperform vote.
14.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.8% of Murray Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Murray Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Murray Income Trust has a net margin of 90.28% compared to Scottish American Investment's net margin of 86.50%. Scottish American Investment's return on equity of 11.79% beat Murray Income Trust's return on equity.
Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Murray Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Scottish American Investment pays out 2,372.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Murray Income Trust pays out 5,694.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Scottish American Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Murray Income Trust. Scottish American Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Murray Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Murray Income Trust beats Scottish American Investment on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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