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Blue Star Capital (BLU) Competitors

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GBX 4.02 -0.98 (-19.60%)
As of 05/2/2025 10:57 AM Eastern

BLU vs. EDIN, JMG, FSV, GSS, BPCR, IHP, HRI, BBGI, TRY, and JPE

Should you be buying Blue Star Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Blue Star Capital include Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG), Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), IntegraFin (IHP), Herald (HRI), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), and JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Growth (JPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Blue Star Capital vs.

Edinburgh Investment (LON:EDIN) and Blue Star Capital (LON:BLU) 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 earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.

Edinburgh Investment has a net margin of 95.34% compared to Blue Star Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Edinburgh Investment's return on equity of 16.15% beat Blue Star Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Edinburgh Investment95.34% 16.15% 6.69%
Blue Star Capital N/A -68.08%-42.27%

Blue Star Capital received 30 more outperform votes than Edinburgh Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 81.69% of users gave Blue Star Capital an outperform vote while only 64.66% of users gave Edinburgh Investment an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Edinburgh InvestmentOutperform Votes
86
64.66%
Underperform Votes
47
35.34%
Blue Star CapitalOutperform Votes
116
81.69%
Underperform Votes
26
18.31%

23.1% of Edinburgh Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Edinburgh Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 34.4% of Blue Star Capital shares are held by company 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.

Edinburgh Investment has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Blue Star Capital has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Edinburgh Investment had 13 more articles in the media than Blue Star Capital. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Edinburgh Investment and 0 mentions for Blue Star Capital. Edinburgh Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Blue Star Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Edinburgh Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Edinburgh Investment Neutral
Blue Star Capital Neutral

Edinburgh Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Blue Star Capital.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Edinburgh Investment£189.32M5.90£180.50M£124.996.18
Blue Star Capital-£5.16M-39.65-£5.35MN/AN/A

Summary

Edinburgh Investment beats Blue Star Capital on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BLU vs. The Competition

MetricBlue Star CapitalAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£204.62M£1.17B£3.88B£2.60B
Dividend Yield1.24%4.47%4.21%4.98%
P/E Ratio1.9021.6613.04133.97
Price / Sales-39.652,303.041,704.06240,916.32
Price / CashN/A61.0850.2028.07
Price / BookN/A1.123.414.54
Net Income-£5.35M£262.87M£1.25B£5.87B
7 Day Performance-26.91%1.24%1.16%3.44%
1 Month Performance-42.57%7.57%12.20%12.41%
1 Year PerformanceN/A2.53%12.12%113.31%

Blue Star Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BLU
Blue Star Capital
N/AGBX 4.02
-19.6%
N/A+12,269.2%£204.62M£-5,160,000.001.903News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
EDIN
Edinburgh Investment
N/AGBX 765
-0.1%
N/A+7.7%£1.11B£189.32M6.12N/A
JMG
JPMorgan Emerging Markets
N/AGBX 104
-0.4%
N/A+0.8%£1.10B£97.45M13.78N/ANews Coverage
FSV
Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values
N/AGBX 330.50
-0.6%
N/A+15.2%£1.07B£237.18M4.8125,000Earnings Report
Positive News
GSS
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.06B£250.40M6.181,626Gap Down
BPCR
BioPharma Credit
N/AGBX 0.85
-0.7%
N/A-2.3%£1.01B£12.99B9.71N/ANews Coverage
IHP
IntegraFin
N/AGBX 304.50
-0.2%
GBX 406.67
+33.6%
+3.8%£1.01B£138.65M19.313,520Dividend Increase
Positive News
HRI
Herald
N/AGBX 2,000
flat
N/A-2.1%£1.01B£162.63M5.776,600Negative News
BBGI
BBGI Global Infrastructure
N/AGBX 141.91
+0.1%
N/A+5.5%£1.01B£67.98M18.371,160
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 316.50
+1.3%
N/A+0.9%£1.01B£311.14M3.5426News Coverage
JPE
JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Growth
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.00B£104.78M1,250.00N/A

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