USA vs. HSL, BRGE, FEML, PHI, IPX, JLEN, EOT, BGFD, GCP, and BUT
Should you be buying Baillie Gifford US Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baillie Gifford US Growth include Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), and Brunner (BUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Baillie Gifford US Growth (LON:USA) and Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Henderson Smaller Companies received 80 more outperform votes than Baillie Gifford US Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Baillie Gifford US Growth an outperform vote while only 68.64% of users gave Henderson Smaller Companies an outperform vote.
Baillie Gifford US Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Smaller Companies. Baillie Gifford US Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henderson Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Baillie Gifford US Growth's return on equity of 0.00% beat Henderson Smaller Companies' return on equity.
In the previous week, Henderson Smaller Companies had 2 more articles in the media than Baillie Gifford US Growth. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Henderson Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for Baillie Gifford US Growth. Henderson Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Baillie Gifford US Growth's score of 0.00 indicating that Henderson Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
38.8% of Baillie Gifford US Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.3% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Baillie Gifford US Growth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Baillie Gifford US Growth beats Henderson Smaller Companies on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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