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Scottish American Investment (SAIN) Competitors

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GBX 504.08 +5.58 (+1.12%)
As of 05/2/2025 12:44 PM Eastern

SAIN vs. PCT, 3IN, PHLL, BUR, RCP, ABDN, JGGI, HGT, EMG, and HICL

Should you be buying Scottish American Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish American Investment include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Burford Capital (BUR), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), abrdn (ABDN), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), HgCapital Trust (HGT), Man Group (EMG), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Scottish American Investment vs.

Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish American Investment. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish American Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scottish American Investment£75.38M11.69£87.22M£49.8710.11
Polar Capital Technology Trust£1.24B2.88£1.20B£101.862.98

Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to Polar Capital Technology Trust's net margin of 96.56%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 30.54% beat Scottish American Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scottish American Investment115.71% 9.33% 5.89%
Polar Capital Technology Trust 96.56%30.54%20.70%

In the previous week, Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Scottish American Investment Neutral
Polar Capital Technology Trust Very Positive

Polar Capital Technology Trust received 79 more outperform votes than Scottish American Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Scottish American Investment an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Scottish American InvestmentOutperform Votes
4
80.00%
Underperform Votes
1
20.00%
Polar Capital Technology TrustOutperform Votes
83
64.34%
Underperform Votes
46
35.66%

16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Polar Capital Technology Trust beats Scottish American Investment on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SAIN vs. The Competition

MetricScottish American InvestmentAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£881.42M£1.17B£3.90B£2.62B
Dividend Yield2.79%4.39%4.16%4.94%
P/E Ratio10.1121.1713.03134.19
Price / Sales11.692,309.681,707.72242,626.49
Price / Cash129.7461.0850.3028.26
Price / Book0.921.133.424.51
Net Income£87.22M£263.64M£1.25B£5.91B
7 Day Performance2.25%1.28%1.19%3.48%
1 Month Performance3.72%8.41%12.31%12.12%
1 Year Performance-1.16%2.56%12.27%26.38%

Scottish American Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 504.08
+1.1%
N/A-0.4%£881.42M£75.38M10.11N/ANews Coverage
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 288.50
-0.5%
N/A-89.5%£3.40B£1.24B2.83120News Coverage
Positive News
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 324.50
-1.2%
N/A-0.7%£2.99B£374M853.95N/ANews Coverage
PHLL
Petershill Partners
N/AGBX 216.18
-1.3%
GBX 240
+11.0%
+4.6%£2.94B£706.00M8.77N/AGap Up
BUR
Burford Capital
2.6806 of 5 stars
GBX 1,023.01
+0.7%
GBX 1,600
+56.4%
-17.2%£2.82B£299.55M18.30140News Coverage
Gap Down
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 1,882
-0.2%
N/A-5.5%£2.71B£103.46M16.2762News Coverage
Positive News
ABDN
abrdn
1.182 of 5 stars
GBX 147.60
+1.0%
GBX 163.50
+10.8%
+4.7%£2.64B£1.49B8.394,719
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 508
+0.4%
N/A-2.6%£2.62B£660.56M4.19N/APositive News
HGT
HgCapital Trust
N/AGBX 508
+0.6%
N/A+5.3%£2.36B£312.64M8.40N/A
EMG
Man Group
2.6411 of 5 stars
GBX 163
-1.2%
GBX 278
+70.6%
-36.3%£2.35B£1.69B7.691,790
HICL
HICL Infrastructure
N/AGBX 116.40
-2.2%
N/A-4.9%£2.32B£105.30M22.83N/ANews Coverage

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