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STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS) Competitors

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As of 07/11/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

STS vs. HRI, EDIN, JFJ, GSS, IHP, TRY, ASHM, AGT, BPCR, and BRWM

Should you be buying STS Global Income & Growth Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of STS Global Income & Growth Trust include Herald (HRI), Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), IntegraFin (IHP), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Ashmore Group (ASHM), AVI Global Trust (AGT), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), and BlackRock World Mining Trust (BRWM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

STS Global Income & Growth Trust vs. Its Competitors

STS Global Income & Growth Trust (LON:STS) and Herald (LON:HRI) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and risk.

17.8% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Herald shares are held by institutional investors. 26.9% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Herald shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Herald has higher revenue and earnings than STS Global Income & Growth Trust. Herald is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STS Global Income & Growth Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
STS Global Income & Growth Trust£20.58M14.52£18.28M£14.9916.28
Herald£162.63M7.27£175.20M£346.546.77

STS Global Income & Growth Trust has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Herald had 1 more articles in the media than STS Global Income & Growth Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Herald and 0 mentions for STS Global Income & Growth Trust. Herald's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat STS Global Income & Growth Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Herald is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
STS Global Income & Growth Trust Neutral
Herald Positive

Herald has a net margin of 107.72% compared to STS Global Income & Growth Trust's net margin of 88.82%. Herald's return on equity of 14.78% beat STS Global Income & Growth Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
STS Global Income & Growth Trust88.82% 6.50% 2.28%
Herald 107.72%14.78%9.22%

Summary

Herald beats STS Global Income & Growth Trust on 10 of the 13 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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STS vs. The Competition

MetricSTS Global Income & Growth TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£298.86M£1.25B£6.16B£3.00B
Dividend Yield2.68%4.39%4.21%5.02%
P/E Ratio16.2822.1013.27150.83
Price / Sales14.522,368.081,738.23314,599.95
Price / Cash52.1160.81128.1027.97
Price / Book1.101.221.914.58
Net Income£18.28M£263.98M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.83%14.37%11.18%11.51%
1 Month Performance2.52%3.20%7.30%8.27%
1 Year Performance12.44%5.55%17.74%32.75%

STS Global Income & Growth Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
STS
STS Global Income & Growth Trust
N/AGBX 244
flat
N/A+12.4%£298.86M£20.58M16.286
HRI
Herald
N/AGBX 2,295.23
-0.4%
N/A+3.3%£1.16B£162.63M6.626,600Negative News
EDIN
Edinburgh Investment
N/AGBX 793
-1.4%
N/A+6.4%£1.15B£189.32M6.34N/A
JFJ
JPMorgan Japanese
N/AGBX 643
-0.6%
N/A+12.0%£1.06B£198.16M5.43N/AHigh Trading Volume
GSS
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.06B£250.40M6.181,626Gap Down
IHP
IntegraFin
N/AGBX 317.53
-4.6%
GBX 406.67
+28.1%
-11.7%£1.05B£138.65M20.133,520Positive News
Dividend Increase
High Trading Volume
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 331.53
-1.9%
N/A-3.1%£1.05B£311.14M3.7126
ASHM
Ashmore Group
0.7602 of 5 stars
GBX 157
+0.5%
GBX 174
+10.8%
-6.8%£1.05B£199.65M11.13283News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
AGT
AVI Global Trust
N/AGBX 242
+0.4%
N/A+1.0%£1.05B£219.59M4.86N/APositive News
BPCR
BioPharma Credit
N/AGBX 0.88
-0.5%
N/A+0.5%£1.04B£12.99B10.00N/A
BRWM
BlackRock World Mining Trust
N/AGBX 544
+2.3%
N/A-5.0%£1.04B£8.73M-77.83147,000

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This page (LON:STS) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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