RICA vs. PCT, ATST, UKW, STJ, 3IN, ABDN, EMG, RCP, JGGI, and HICL
Should you be buying Ruffer Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ruffer Investment include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), St. James's Place (STJ), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), abrdn (ABDN), Man Group (EMG), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Ruffer Investment received 14 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 94.25% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 17.53% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ruffer Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Ruffer Investment and 2 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Ruffer Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
41.6% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.24, meaning that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ruffer Investment. Ruffer Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital Technology Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Polar Capital Technology Trust beats Ruffer Investment on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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