BGUK vs. AGT, JFJ, ASHM, BRWM, RICA, CGT, JEO, APEO, SLPE, and SAIN
Should you be buying Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust include AVI Global Trust (AGT), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), Ashmore Group (ASHM), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), and Scottish American Investment (SAIN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust vs.
AVI Global Trust (LON:AGT) and Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (LON:BGUK) 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 valuation, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust received 4 more outperform votes than AVI Global Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave AVI Global Trust an outperform vote.
AVI Global Trust has a net margin of 98.28% compared to Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's net margin of 94.25%. AVI Global Trust's return on equity of 20.08% beat Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust had 2 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust and 0 mentions for AVI Global Trust. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat AVI Global Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AVI Global Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust. AVI Global Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AVI Global Trust has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. AVI Global Trust pays out 8.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust pays out 15.4% 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.
34.4% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.0% of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% of AVI Global Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
AVI Global Trust beats Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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