BSIF vs. SOI, DGN, JII, POLR, RSE, OCI, SLPE, SWEF, and EAT
Should you be buying Bluefield Solar Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bluefield Solar Income Fund include Schroder Oriental Income Fund (SOI), Asia Dragon Trust (DGN), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Polar Capital (POLR), Riverstone Energy (RSE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF), and European Assets Trust (EAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (LON:BSIF) and Schroder Oriental Income Fund (LON:SOI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a net margin of 98.78% compared to Schroder Oriental Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Bluefield Solar Income Fund's return on equity of 21.41% beat Schroder Oriental Income Fund's return on equity.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Schroder Oriental Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays out 2,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Schroder Oriental Income Fund pays out -12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a beta of 0.16, suggesting that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder Oriental Income Fund has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Oriental Income Fund. Schroder Oriental Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bluefield Solar Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bluefield Solar Income Fund had 4 more articles in the media than Schroder Oriental Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bluefield Solar Income Fund and 0 mentions for Schroder Oriental Income Fund. Bluefield Solar Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Schroder Oriental Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Bluefield Solar Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Schroder Oriental Income Fund received 13 more outperform votes than Bluefield Solar Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.85% of users gave Schroder Oriental Income Fund an outperform vote while only 60.11% of users gave Bluefield Solar Income Fund an outperform vote.
59.5% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Schroder Oriental Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Bluefield Solar Income Fund beats Schroder Oriental Income Fund on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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