BGUK vs. IHP, AGT, BRWM, GSS, BPCR, TRY, JFJ, JPE, BLU, and BBGI
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 IntegraFin (IHP), AVI Global Trust (AGT), BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Growth (JPE), Blue Star Capital (BLU), and BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust vs. Its Competitors
IntegraFin (LON:IHP) and Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (LON:BGUK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations and earnings.
IntegraFin has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.
IntegraFin pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. IntegraFin pays out 63.4% 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. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IntegraFin. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IntegraFin, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
IntegraFin presently has a consensus target price of GBX 423.75, indicating a potential upside of 15.31%. Given IntegraFin's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe IntegraFin is more favorable than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust.
In the previous week, IntegraFin had 17 more articles in the media than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for IntegraFin and 2 mentions for Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.26 beat IntegraFin's score of 0.61 indicating that Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.5% of IntegraFin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.0% of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.1% of IntegraFin 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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has a net margin of 94.25% compared to IntegraFin's net margin of 37.90%. IntegraFin's return on equity of 26.21% beat Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's return on equity.
Summary
IntegraFin beats Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:BGUK) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
