SAIN vs. ABDN, 3IN, PHLL, JGGI, RCP, EMG, BPT, MNKS, CTY, and HICL
Should you be buying Scottish American Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish American Investment include abrdn (ABDN), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Petershill Partners (PHLL), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Man Group (EMG), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Monks (MNKS), City of London (CTY), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish American Investment vs. Its Competitors
Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and abrdn (LON:ABDN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and analyst recommendations.
abrdn has a consensus target price of GBX 195, indicating a potential upside of 2.63%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe abrdn is more favorable than Scottish American Investment.
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.
Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, abrdn had 5 more articles in the media than Scottish American Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for abrdn and 0 mentions for Scottish American Investment. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of abrdn shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of abrdn shares are owned 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
abrdn beats Scottish American Investment on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SAIN) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff