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Liontrust Asset Management (LIO) Competitors

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GBX 370 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 07/25/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

LIO vs. RICA, SAIN, IEM, CGT, MUT, JEO, APEO, NBPE, ESCT, and BLU

Should you be buying Liontrust Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liontrust Asset Management include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Capital Gearing (CGT), Murray Income Trust (MUT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), and Blue Star Capital (BLU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Liontrust Asset Management vs. Its Competitors

Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and Liontrust Asset Management (LON:LIO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.

Liontrust Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than Ruffer Investment. Liontrust Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ruffer Investment£16.91M54.24£8.78M£2.75103.67
Liontrust Asset Management£195.53M1.19£68.85M£109.133.39

Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.5%. 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. Liontrust Asset Management pays out 66.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Liontrust Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Liontrust Asset Management has a consensus price target of GBX 341.67, indicating a potential downside of 7.66%. Given Liontrust Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liontrust Asset Management is more favorable than Ruffer Investment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ruffer Investment
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Liontrust Asset Management
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.67

Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liontrust Asset Management has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.1% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Ruffer Investment has a net margin of 51.94% compared to Liontrust Asset Management's net margin of 35.21%. Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity of 39.68% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ruffer Investment51.94% 0.96% 0.45%
Liontrust Asset Management 35.21%39.68%5.02%

In the previous week, Ruffer Investment had 1 more articles in the media than Liontrust Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ruffer Investment and 1 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management. Liontrust Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Ruffer Investment's score of 0.77 indicating that Liontrust Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ruffer Investment
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Liontrust Asset Management
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Liontrust Asset Management beats Ruffer Investment on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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LIO vs. The Competition

MetricLiontrust Asset ManagementAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£233.65M£1.31B£6.46B£3.02B
Dividend Yield16.00%4.38%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio3.3922.4714.08160.65
Price / Sales1.192,365.621,726.63278,114.42
Price / Cash5.6160.71128.7127.97
Price / Book1.381.231.964.70
Net Income£68.85M£264.35M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-0.54%0.06%0.47%0.36%
1 Month Performance-2.63%1.78%3.24%7.05%
1 Year Performance-43.77%6.51%25.50%73.19%

Liontrust Asset Management Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LIO
Liontrust Asset Management
1.6528 of 5 stars
GBX 370
flat
GBX 341.67
-7.7%
-41.9%£233.65M£195.53M3.39241Positive News
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 283.50
+0.2%
N/A+5.0%£912.23M£16.91M103.12N/A
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 514.92
0.0%
N/A+2.0%£900.37M£75.38M10.32N/A
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 387.50
-0.6%
N/A+0.7%£899.58M£1.35M-96.39N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,820
-0.1%
N/A+3.2%£896.40M£17.92M19.60N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 896
+0.1%
N/A+3.3%£895.18M£97.96M9.87147,000Dividend Cut
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M-£62.33M-12.93N/A
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
NBPE
NB Private Equity Partners
N/AGBX 1,512
-0.3%
N/A-6.8%£876.97M£12.90M-39.66N/A
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 217
-0.7%
N/A+20.7%£855.93M£96.24M10.23305News Coverage
Positive News
BLU
Blue Star Capital
N/AGBX 16.73
-1.6%
N/A+71,182.6%£851.71M-£5.16M1.903

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This page (LON:LIO) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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