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Scottish American Investment (SAIN) Competitors

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GBX 519 +4.00 (+0.78%)
As of 12:18 PM Eastern

SAIN vs. ATST, ABDN, PHLL, 3IN, BPT, JGGI, BUR, RCP, EMG, and MNKS

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

Scottish American Investment vs. Its Competitors

Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Trust pays out 1,226.4% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Scottish American Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Alliance Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Scottish American Investment Neutral
Alliance Trust Neutral

Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Alliance 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.

Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to Alliance Trust's net margin of 92.17%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 17.93% 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%
Alliance Trust 92.17%17.93%10.95%

Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish American Investment. Alliance 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£75.38M12.04£87.22M£49.8710.41
Alliance Trust£652.76M0.00£601.66M£2.12N/A

Summary

Alliance Trust beats Scottish American Investment on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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SAIN vs. The Competition

MetricScottish American InvestmentAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£907.51M£1.30B£6.38B£3.02B
Dividend Yield2.79%4.40%4.20%5.02%
P/E Ratio10.4122.2914.04165.88
Price / Sales12.042,351.921,728.50285,131.44
Price / Cash129.7460.71128.4827.97
Price / Book0.951.231.964.46
Net Income£87.22M£263.65M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.65%0.22%0.80%3.82%
1 Month Performance3.39%2.81%4.08%9.81%
1 Year Performance0.19%5.94%19.68%74.29%

Scottish American Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 519
+0.8%
N/A-0.1%£907.51M£75.38M10.41N/A
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
ABDN
abrdn
0.9193 of 5 stars
GBX 193.97
-0.1%
GBX 184.33
-5.0%
+17.3%£3.47B£1.49B11.034,719
PHLL
Petershill Partners
1.7559 of 5 stars
GBX 238.50
+0.4%
GBX 240
+0.6%
+15.5%£3.24B£706.00M9.68N/ANews Coverage
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3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 345
+0.1%
N/A+3.9%£3.18B£374M907.89N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
BPT
Bridgepoint Group
1.4606 of 5 stars
GBX 350.93
+1.4%
GBX 384
+9.4%
+41.0%£2.90B£272.35M63.75391
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 560.37
+0.8%
N/A-1.2%£2.89B£660.56M4.62N/A
BUR
Burford Capital
2.7723 of 5 stars
GBX 1,044
+0.6%
GBX 1,600
+53.3%
-2.9%£2.87B£299.55M18.68140
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 1,906.14
+0.3%
N/A+0.4%£2.75B£103.46M16.4862
EMG
Man Group
2.6993 of 5 stars
GBX 179.70
+0.6%
GBX 250.50
+39.4%
-28.2%£2.59B£1.69B8.481,790Analyst Forecast
MNKS
Monks
N/AGBX 1,323.79
+1.2%
N/A+13.0%£2.55B£610.03M4.30N/ATrending News

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