BAF vs. KWG, SVCT, CIN, SWC, EGT, HOYE, EMVC, WINV, USG, and KRM
Should you be buying British & American Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British & American Investment Trust include Kingswood (KWG), Seneca Growth Capital VCT (SVCT), City of London Group (CIN), Summerway Capital (SWC), European Green Transition Plc O (EGT), Honye Financial Services (HOYE), EMV Capital (EMVC), Worsley Investors (WINV), Ultimate Sports Group (USG), and KRM22 (KRM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British & American Investment Trust vs.
Kingswood (LON:KWG) and British & American Investment Trust (LON:BAF) 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 analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Kingswood has a beta of -0.21, meaning that its stock price is 121% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, British & American Investment Trust has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
British & American Investment Trust has a net margin of 66.58% compared to Kingswood's net margin of -22.71%. British & American Investment Trust's return on equity of 21.96% beat Kingswood's return on equity.
In the previous week, British & American Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Kingswood. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for British & American Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Kingswood. British & American Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Kingswood's score of 0.00 indicating that British & American Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
British & American Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kingswood. Kingswood is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British & American Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
0.0% of Kingswood shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of British & American Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 23.6% of Kingswood shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 69.7% of British & American Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
British & American Investment Trust received 17 more outperform votes than Kingswood when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave British & American Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 53.13% of users gave Kingswood an outperform vote.
Summary
British & American Investment Trust beats Kingswood on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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