Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY) Competitors

Bloomsbury Publishing (LON:BMY) and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (LON:SLS) are both small-cap pharmaceutical products companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Is BMY or SLS more profitable?

Bloomsbury Publishing has a net margin of 9.77% compared to Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Bloomsbury Publishing's return on equity of 18.62% beat Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Bloomsbury Publishing	9.77%	18.62%	7.82%
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend BMY or SLS?

Bloomsbury Publishing currently has a consensus price target of GBX 825, suggesting a potential upside of 70.10%. Given Bloomsbury Publishing's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bloomsbury Publishing is more favorable than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Bloomsbury Publishing	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Does the media prefer BMY or SLS?

In the previous week, Bloomsbury Publishing had 1 more articles in the media than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bloomsbury Publishing and 0 mentions for Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Bloomsbury Publishing's score of -0.92 indicating that Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Bloomsbury Publishing	Negative
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in BMY or SLS?

70.1% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Bloomsbury Publishing shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, BMY or SLS?

Bloomsbury Publishing has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomsbury Publishing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Bloomsbury Publishing	£382.40M	1.02	£37.37M	£46.74	10.38
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	£222.48M	0.00	N/A	£217.40	N/A

Is BMY or SLS a better dividend stock?

Bloomsbury Publishing pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share. Bloomsbury Publishing pays out 32.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.0% 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.

Summary

Bloomsbury Publishing beats Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.