BSV vs. SAIN, CGT, RICA, TMPL, JEO, APEO, IEM, SLPE, MUT, and OCI
Should you be buying British Smaller Companies VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Smaller Companies VCT include Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Capital Gearing (CGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Murray Income Trust (MUT), and Oakley Capital Investments (OCI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Smaller Companies VCT vs.
Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.
Scottish American Investment has higher revenue and earnings than British Smaller Companies VCT. Scottish American Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Smaller Companies VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to British Smaller Companies VCT's net margin of 66.78%. Scottish American Investment's return on equity of 9.33% beat British Smaller Companies VCT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Scottish American Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled British Smaller Companies VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% 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.
British Smaller Companies VCT received 33 more outperform votes than Scottish American Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Scottish American Investment an outperform vote while only 74.00% of users gave British Smaller Companies VCT an outperform vote.
Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. British Smaller Companies VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.3% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by 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
Scottish American Investment beats British Smaller Companies VCT on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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