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As of 08/8/2025 12:30 PM Eastern

REC vs. UEM, GRID, GHE, POLR, OAP3, BHGG, TAM, RTW, JCH, and JUGI

Should you be buying Record stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Record include Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (UEM), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), Gresham House (GHE), Polar Capital (POLR), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), BH Global (BHGG), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH), and JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Record vs. Its Competitors

Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (LON:UEM) and Record (LON:REC) 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 earnings, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk and dividends.

Record has a net margin of 430.56% compared to Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's net margin of 63.48%. Record's return on equity of 680.45% beat Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust63.48% 4.12% 7.22%
Record 430.56%680.45%25.14%

Utilico Emerging Markets Trust has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Record has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

54.5% of Utilico Emerging Markets Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.4% of Record shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Utilico Emerging Markets Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 66.6% of Record shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Utilico Emerging Markets Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Record pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Utilico Emerging Markets Trust pays out 81.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Record pays out 4.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Record is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Record had 53 more articles in the media than Utilico Emerging Markets Trust. MarketBeat recorded 54 mentions for Record and 1 mentions for Utilico Emerging Markets Trust. Utilico Emerging Markets Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Record's score of 0.12 indicating that Utilico Emerging Markets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Utilico Emerging Markets 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
Record
5 Very Positive mention(s)
12 Positive mention(s)
26 Neutral mention(s)
9 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Record has higher revenue and earnings than Utilico Emerging Markets Trust. Record is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Utilico Emerging Markets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust£33.05M14.20£20.98M£11.0222.59
Record£46.40M2.50£199.77M£101.590.58

Summary

Record beats Utilico Emerging Markets Trust on 11 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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REC vs. The Competition

MetricRecordAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£116.03M£1.29B£6.35B£3.07B
Dividend Yield4.86%4.41%4.19%5.03%
P/E Ratio0.5822.5014.27170.60
Price / Sales2.502,541.561,841.27303,755.44
Price / Cash9.3560.70127.2327.96
Price / Book3.921.442.264.52
Net Income£199.77M£265.04M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance6.50%0.72%1.68%1.27%
1 Month Performance-7.23%0.66%2.47%3.66%
1 Year Performance-8.34%7.83%25.90%58.43%

Record Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
REC
Record
N/AGBX 59
flat
N/A-6.5%£116.03M£46.40M0.5897Trending News
UEM
Utilico Emerging Markets Trust
N/AGBX 241.36
+0.1%
N/A+12.2%£454.89M£33.05M21.89N/ANews Coverage
GRID
Gresham House Energy Storage
N/AGBX 79.89
+0.4%
N/A+28.2%£453.57M-£186.53M-2.31N/ANews Coverage
GHE
Gresham House
N/AN/AN/AN/A£451.55M£86.03M3,055.56216
POLR
Polar Capital
3.3427 of 5 stars
GBX 469.50
+0.9%
GBX 530
+12.9%
-2.0%£448.76M£208.88M10.94135Gap Down
OAP3
Octopus Apollo VCT
N/AGBX 46.50
flat
N/AN/A£447.28M£2.55M-77.64N/A
BHGG
BH Global
N/AN/AN/AN/A£444.68M£837K5.12N/A
TAM
Tatton Asset Management
N/AGBX 731.12
+0.7%
N/A+8.2%£441.87M£37.17M32.96103News Coverage
Positive News
RTW
RTW Biotech Opportunities
N/AGBX 1.31
flat
N/A-12.8%£440.05M£2.12B3.124,971High Trading Volume
JCH
JPMorgan Claverhouse
N/AGBX 788
-0.3%
N/A+8.8%£438.05M£62.40M7.58N/ANews Coverage
JUGI
JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income
N/AGBX 325
-0.5%
N/A-4.9%£437.01M£109.52M4.18N/A

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This page (LON:REC) was last updated on 8/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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