LIV vs. SST, BCI, BPET, CTUK, BRFI, PCFC, JPS, WPCT, HHI, and HAN
Should you be buying Livermore Investments Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Livermore Investments Group include Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), BMO Capital and Income Investment Trust (BCI), BMO Private Equity Trust (BPET), CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (CTUK), BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI), Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFC), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS), Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), and Hansa Investment (HAN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Livermore Investments Group vs. Its Competitors
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) and Livermore Investments Group (LON:LIV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Livermore Investments Group has a beta of 0.36, meaning that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500.
9.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Livermore Investments Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 89.8% of Livermore Investments Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Livermore Investments Group has a net margin of 82.54% compared to Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' net margin of 77.82%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity of 28.42% beat Livermore Investments Group's return on equity.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Livermore Investments Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.4%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Livermore Investments Group pays out -279.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Livermore Investments Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Livermore Investments Group had 1 more articles in the media than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Livermore Investments Group and 0 mentions for Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Livermore Investments Group's score of -0.54 indicating that Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has higher revenue and earnings than Livermore Investments Group. Livermore Investments Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Livermore Investments Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:LIV) was last updated on 10/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff