SST vs. BIPS, HNE, HINT, JAGI, AIE, GRID, BIOG, CTPE, BRK, and LWI
Should you be buying Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos include Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Henderson International Income Trust (HINT), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), The Biotech Growth Trust (BIOG), CT Private Equity Trust (CTPE), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), and Lowland Investment (LWI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Invesco Bond Income Plus (LON:BIPS) and Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) 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 risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Invesco Bond Income Plus has a net margin of 101.73% compared to Invesco Bond Income Plus' net margin of 75.42%. Invesco Bond Income Plus' return on equity of 11.37% beat Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity.
13.5% of Invesco Bond Income Plus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.9% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Invesco Bond Income Plus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Invesco Bond Income Plus pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Invesco Bond Income Plus pays out 6,666.7% 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 Oriental Smaller Cos pays out 778.4% 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 Oriental Smaller Cos has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Bond Income Plus. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Invesco Bond Income Plus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos received 101 more outperform votes than Invesco Bond Income Plus when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Invesco Bond Income Plus had 2 more articles in the media than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Invesco Bond Income Plus and 0 mentions for Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos. Invesco Bond Income Plus' average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' score of 0.00 indicating that Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Invesco Bond Income Plus has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Invesco Bond Income Plus on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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