NSI vs. AAIF, BGS, MTE, PCFC, EAT, JPS, WPCT, HHI, BGHS, and BLU
Should you be buying New Star Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Star Investment Trust include abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Montanaro European Smaller (MTE), Polar Capital Global Financials Trust (PCFC), European Assets Trust (EAT), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS), Woodford Patient Capital Trust (WPCT), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), Boussard & Gavaudan GBP (BGHS), and Blue Star Capital (BLU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
New Star Investment Trust vs.
abrdn Asian Income Fund (LON:AAIF) and New Star Investment Trust (LON:NSI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
abrdn Asian Income Fund received 80 more outperform votes than New Star Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave abrdn Asian Income Fund an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave New Star Investment Trust an outperform vote.
abrdn Asian Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than New Star Investment Trust. New Star Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn Asian Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
59.9% of abrdn Asian Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of abrdn Asian Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 76.1% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
New Star Investment Trust has a net margin of 92.75% compared to abrdn Asian Income Fund's net margin of 85.32%. abrdn Asian Income Fund's return on equity of 11.73% beat New Star Investment Trust's return on equity.
abrdn Asian Income Fund has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Star Investment Trust has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, abrdn Asian Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than New Star Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn Asian Income Fund and 0 mentions for New Star Investment Trust. abrdn Asian Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat New Star Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn Asian Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
abrdn Asian Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. New Star Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. abrdn Asian Income Fund pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Star Investment Trust pays out 15.6% 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.
Summary
abrdn Asian Income Fund beats New Star Investment Trust on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NSI) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
