SEC vs. SOI, PEY, HET, GCP, EWI, JEDT, PCFT, HSL, BUT, and SEIT
Should you be buying Strategic Equity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Equity Capital include Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Princess Private Equity (PEY), Henderson European Trust (HET), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Brunner (BUT), and SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Strategic Equity Capital vs. Its Competitors
Schroder Oriental Income (LON:SOI) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Schroder Oriental Income has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder Oriental Income presently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, indicating a potential upside of 1.59%. Given Schroder Oriental Income's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Schroder Oriental Income is more favorable than Strategic Equity Capital.
Schroder Oriental Income has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Equity Capital. Schroder Oriental Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Equity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
33.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.2% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Schroder Oriental Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Schroder Oriental Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Schroder Oriental Income pays out 26.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 5.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
In the previous week, Schroder Oriental Income and Schroder Oriental Income both had 1 articles in the media. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Schroder Oriental Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schroder Oriental Income has a net margin of 88.88% compared to Strategic Equity Capital's net margin of 88.65%. Schroder Oriental Income's return on equity of 16.22% beat Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Strategic Equity Capital beats Schroder Oriental Income on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SEC) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff