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New Star Investment Trust (NSI) Competitors

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GBX 113.50 -3.28 (-2.81%)
As of 09/22/2025 08:16 AM Eastern

NSI vs. ORIT, HINT, BGS, BGEU, NBLS, EAT, SST, HNE, MNL, and SJG

Should you be buying New Star Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Star Investment Trust include Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), Henderson International Income (HINT), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust (BGEU), NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund GBP (NBLS.L) (NBLS), European Assets Trust (EAT), Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Manchester & London (MNL), and Schroder Japan Trust (SJG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

New Star Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (LON:ORIT) and New Star Investment Trust (LON:NSI) 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 earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. New Star Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust pays out 283.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. New Star Investment Trust pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

New Star Investment Trust has a net margin of 92.75% compared to Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust's net margin of 62.83%. New Star Investment Trust's return on equity of 11.02% beat Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust62.83% 3.10% 1.89%
New Star Investment Trust 92.75%11.02%1.81%

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has higher revenue and earnings than New Star Investment Trust. New Star Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust£13.34M25.70£18.16M£0.023,047.62
New Star Investment Trust£11.52M7.00£15.76M£0.16723.85

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Star Investment Trust has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust had 2 more articles in the media than New Star Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust and 1 mentions for New Star Investment Trust. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat New Star Investment Trust's score of 1.58 indicating that Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
New Star Investment Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

37.3% of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 62.4% 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust beats New Star Investment Trust on 9 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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NSI vs. The Competition

MetricNew Star Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£80.61M£1.48B£6.46B£2.57B
Dividend Yield2.93%4.62%4.33%5.33%
P/E Ratio723.854,759.381,784.725,405.27
Price / Sales7.001,974.971,368.3497,176.40
Price / Cash3.5460.47127.9427.93
Price / Book0.581.362.099.12
Net Income£15.76M£264.59M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-6.20%0.55%1.25%1.08%
1 Month Performance3.18%1.16%2.70%3.03%
1 Year Performance3.80%9.06%33.64%193.30%

New Star Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NSI
New Star Investment Trust
N/AGBX 113.50
-2.8%
N/A+4.1%£80.61M£11.52M723.85N/APositive News
Gap Down
ORIT
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
N/AGBX 64
+0.9%
N/A-19.5%£344.71M£13.34M3,047.62N/ANews Coverage
Earnings Report
HINT
Henderson International Income
N/AGBX 174.59
flat
N/AN/A£342.26M£38.86M9.82N/A
BGS
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon
N/AGBX 136.40
-0.1%
N/A+14.5%£339.32M-£29.01M-1,324.273,080
BGEU
Baillie Gifford European Growth Trust
N/AGBX 105
+0.5%
N/A+17.2%£337.52M-£52.80M-692.16N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Increase
NBLS
NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund GBP (NBLS.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£337.13MN/A0.00N/A
EAT
European Assets Trust
N/AGBX 93.40
+0.4%
N/A+9.6%£335.58M£25.97M1,389.88N/AHigh Trading Volume
SST
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos
N/AGBX 288
-0.7%
N/A-80.4%£334.83M£38.69M1,035.08320Dividend Increase
HNE
Henderson EuroTrust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£332.62M£31.38M1,207.69N/A
MNL
Manchester & London
N/AGBX 856
-1.4%
N/A+35.5%£329.29M£89.15M388.90N/APositive News
SJG
Schroder Japan Trust
N/AGBX 285
-0.7%
N/A+15.6%£328.85M£44.94M775.09N/APositive News
Dividend Cut

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This page (LON:NSI) was last updated on 9/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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