BSV vs. RICA, TMPL, JEO, CGT, OCI, SAIN, APEO, ICGT, SLPE, and MUT
Should you be buying British Smaller Companies VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Smaller Companies VCT include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Capital Gearing (CGT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Smaller Companies VCT vs. Its Competitors
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV) 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 analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
British Smaller Companies VCT has a net margin of 66.78% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 51.94%. British Smaller Companies VCT's return on equity of 3.73% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.
Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, British Smaller Companies VCT has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ruffer Investment has higher revenue and earnings than British Smaller Companies VCT. British Smaller Companies VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. British Smaller Companies VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. British Smaller Companies VCT pays out 139.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. British Smaller Companies VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, British Smaller Companies VCT had 4 more articles in the media than Ruffer Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for British Smaller Companies VCT and 1 mentions for Ruffer Investment. British Smaller Companies VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Ruffer Investment's score of 0.67 indicating that British Smaller Companies VCT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ruffer Investment received 60 more outperform votes than British Smaller Companies VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 74.00% of users gave British Smaller Companies VCT an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.
Summary
British Smaller Companies VCT beats Ruffer Investment on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:BSV) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
