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Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS) Competitors

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GBX 131 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 10/17/2025 12:23 PM Eastern

BGS vs. THS, FLO, MED, PPC, DAR, BG, AFRI, FREE, ADM, and VEIL

Should you be buying Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon include Tharisa (THS), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc (MED.L) (MED), President Energy (PPC), Dar Global (DAR), 16222865 (BG.L) (BG), AFRI.L (AFRI), FreeAgent (FREE), Admiral Group (ADM), and Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL).

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon vs. Its Competitors

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (LON:BGS) and Tharisa (LON:THS) are both small-cap food products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Tharisa has a consensus price target of GBX 200, suggesting a potential upside of 100.00%. Given Tharisa's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Tharisa is more favorable than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Tharisa
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

8.5% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.0% of Tharisa shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Tharisa 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.

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tharisa has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Tharisa has higher revenue and earnings than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. Tharisa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon£8.93M36.60-£55.32M£0.035,157.48
Tharisa£633.11M0.46£96.84M£0.17595.24

In the previous week, Tharisa had 3 more articles in the media than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Tharisa and 0 mentions for Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. Tharisa's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's score of 0.00 indicating that Tharisa is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon Neutral
Tharisa Neutral

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Tharisa pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays out 23.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tharisa pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has a net margin of 101.98% compared to Tharisa's net margin of 11.49%. Tharisa's return on equity of 12.09% beat Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon101.98% -13.81% -7.19%
Tharisa 11.49%12.09%5.09%

Summary

Tharisa beats Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BGS vs. The Competition

MetricBaillie Gifford Shin NipponAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£326.76M£1.46B£4.85B£2.57B
Dividend Yield0.46%4.71%4.39%5.37%
P/E Ratio5,157.482,812.121,223.084,124.05
Price / Sales36.601,966.321,350.1099,406.89
Price / Cash141.2160.46127.7827.90
Price / Book0.971.363.538.11
Net Income-£55.32M£264.59M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance0.77%-0.27%-0.31%-0.62%
1 Month Performance-3.96%-0.42%0.35%0.73%
1 Year Performance13.91%7.04%41.85%128.71%

Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BGS
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon
N/AGBX 131
flat
N/A+13.9%£326.76M£8.93M5,157.483,080Gap Down
THS
Tharisa
2.175 of 5 stars
GBX 102
-1.0%
GBX 200
+96.1%
+49.3%£300.06M£633.11M607.147,500Dividend Increase
High Trading Volume
FLO
Flowtech Fluidpower
1.5576 of 5 stars
GBX 71.80
+3.6%
GBX 130
+81.1%
-24.2%£45.43M£108.47M-167.48582
MED
Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc (MED.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£39.06M£5.28M-7.63870Gap Down
PPC
President Energy
N/AN/AN/AN/A£15.95M£34.68M156.5761,500News Coverage
Gap Down
DAR
Dar Global
N/AGBX 6.60
+2.7%
N/A+50.0%£11.88M£351.27M30.0014,600News Coverage
Gap Up
BG
16222865 (BG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.0023,000
AFRI
AFRI.L
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.001
FREE
FreeAgent
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.00740News Coverage
ADM
Admiral Group
2.1837 of 5 stars
GBX 3,362
+1.0%
GBX 2,752
-18.1%
+18.6%£10.05B£5.23B1,245.1942,000
VEIL
Vietnam Enterprise
N/AGBX 785.61
+2.0%
N/A+34.0%£1.30B£81.16M1,964.04N/A

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This page (LON:BGS) was last updated on 10/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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