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Schroder Income Growth (SCF) Competitors

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GBX 318 -4.50 (-1.40%)
As of 10/17/2025 11:54 AM Eastern

SCF vs. APEO, MUT, RICA, SAIN, MRCH, AGT.LN, CGT, JESC, IEM, and BGSC

Should you be buying Schroder Income Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Income Growth include abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Murray Income Trust (MUT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), Capital Gearing (CGT), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), and BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Schroder Income Growth vs. Its Competitors

Schroder Income Growth (LON:SCF) and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (LON:APEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation and institutional ownership.

8.3% of Schroder Income Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Schroder Income Growth shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Schroder Income Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share. Schroder Income Growth pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays out 4,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Schroder Income Growth is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Schroder Income Growth has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Schroder Income Growth has a net margin of 91.20% compared to abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' net margin of 76.01%. Schroder Income Growth's return on equity of 17.23% beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Schroder Income Growth91.20% 17.23% 4.32%
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities 76.01%5.18%3.35%

In the previous week, Schroder Income Growth had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Schroder Income Growth and 0 mentions for abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. Schroder Income Growth's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' score of 0.00 indicating that Schroder Income Growth is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Schroder Income Growth Positive
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Neutral

abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Income Growth. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder Income Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Schroder Income Growth£40.39M5.35£37.42M£0.57555.46
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities£80.21M0.00£60.96M£0.40N/A

Summary

Schroder Income Growth beats abrdn Private Equity Opportunities on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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SCF vs. The Competition

MetricSchroder Income GrowthAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£216.24M£1.46B£4.85B£2.57B
Dividend Yield4.58%4.71%4.39%5.37%
P/E Ratio555.462,812.121,223.084,124.89
Price / Sales5.351,966.321,353.1699,406.89
Price / Cash91.3360.46127.7827.90
Price / Book0.951.363.538.11
Net Income£37.42M£264.59M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-1.85%-0.27%-0.31%-0.62%
1 Month Performance1.27%-0.42%0.35%0.73%
1 Year Performance11.19%7.04%41.85%128.71%

Schroder Income Growth Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SCF
Schroder Income Growth
N/AGBX 318
-1.4%
N/A+11.2%£216.24M£40.39M555.46N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 895
-1.3%
N/A+6.1%£876.13M£24.33M3,960.18147,000Positive News
Dividend Cut
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 292.50
flat
N/A+10.1%£867.99M£44.42M2,319.59N/APositive News
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 506
-1.2%
N/A-1.9%£850.64M£13.77M8,892.79N/A
MRCH
The Merchants Trust
N/AGBX 545
-2.0%
N/A-6.4%£824.91M£36.71M2,376.80N/A
AGT.LN
AVI Global Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£812.93M£51.62M20.82N/AHigh Trading Volume
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,896.92
+0.0%
N/A+3.0%£806.33M£37.55M2,723.54N/A
JESC
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£795.72M£114.05M7.60N/A
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 402
-1.7%
N/A+2.9%£793.11M-£43.08M-1,941.09N/A
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A

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This page (LON:SCF) was last updated on 10/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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