SAIN vs. ABDN, PHLL, 3IN, JGGI, RCP, BUR, BPT, MNKS, HVPE, and CTY
Should you be buying Scottish American Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish American Investment include abrdn (ABDN), Petershill Partners (PHLL), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Burford Capital (BUR), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Monks (MNKS), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), and City of London (CTY). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish American Investment vs. Its Competitors
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
abrdn has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish American Investment. Scottish American Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
abrdn currently has a consensus target price of GBX 206.60, suggesting a potential upside of 5.96%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe abrdn is more favorable than Scottish American Investment.
38.2% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Scottish American Investment 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.
Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to abrdn's net margin of 21.19%. Scottish American Investment's return on equity of 9.33% beat abrdn's return on equity.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. abrdn pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, abrdn and abrdn both had 1 articles in the media. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the media.
abrdn has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
abrdn beats Scottish American Investment on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SAIN) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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