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Smithson Investment Trust (SSON) Competitors

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GBX 1,450 +12.00 (+0.83%)
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SSON vs. ICP, SDRC, HL, SDR, FCIT, STJ, MNG, ATST, PCT, and 3IN

Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), St. James's Place (STJ), M&G (MNG), Alliance Trust (ATST), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Smithson Investment Trust vs.

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Smithson Investment Trust has a net margin of 317.04% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 56.78%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group56.78% 20.09% 4.57%
Smithson Investment Trust 317.04%-2.13%N/A

In the previous week, Smithson Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Smithson Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Smithson Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Smithson Investment Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Intermediate Capital Group received 398 more outperform votes than Smithson Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Intermediate Capital GroupOutperform Votes
398
70.44%
Underperform Votes
167
29.56%
Smithson Investment TrustN/AN/A

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intermediate Capital Group£831.60M0.00£409.10M£0.77N/A
Smithson Investment Trust-£13.48M-137.51-£42.74M-£33.47-43.32

Summary

Intermediate Capital Group beats Smithson Investment Trust on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SSON vs. The Competition

MetricSmithson Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.85B£1.15B£3.84B£2.56B
Dividend YieldN/A4.46%4.21%4.97%
P/E Ratio-43.3221.8213.04132.50
Price / Sales-137.512,287.401,692.09227,865.49
Price / CashN/A61.4750.4928.11
Price / Book0.981.143.414.51
Net Income-£42.74M£262.88M£1.25B£5.84B
7 Day Performance4.02%1.51%1.31%3.31%
1 Month Performance1.94%10.16%12.79%9.43%
1 Year Performance5.38%2.78%12.83%114.47%

Smithson Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSON
Smithson Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,450
+0.8%
N/A+4.2%£1.85B£-13,481,214.92-43.32N/A
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.3369 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
2.1476 of 5 stars
GBX 1,108.50
flat
GBX 1,104
-0.4%
N/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.7026 of 5 stars
GBX 319.80
+1.5%
GBX 427.33
+33.6%
-6.9%£4.96B£2.78B13.976,438Analyst Forecast
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,026
+2.4%
N/A+4.2%£4.96B£981.19M5.32N/ADividend Announcement
News Coverage
STJ
St. James's Place
1.0701 of 5 stars
GBX 914.31
+2.2%
GBX 784.25
-14.2%
+115.6%£4.94B£26.27B-766.322,298
MNG
M&G
0.4253 of 5 stars
GBX 201.30
+1.4%
GBX 223.33
+10.9%
+3.0%£4.79B£9.02B28.716,101Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 279
+4.7%
N/A-90.1%£3.29B£1.24B2.74120Positive News
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 326
+0.6%
N/A-2.6%£3.01B£374M857.89N/AHigh Trading Volume

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