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.
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.
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.
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.
Summary
Liontrust Asset Management beats Ruffer Investment on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:LIO) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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