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Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF) Competitors

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SWEF vs. SAIN, RICA, CGT, TMPL, JEO, APEO, SLPE, IEM, MUT, and OCI

Should you be buying Starwood European Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood European Real Estate Finance include Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Murray Income Trust (MUT), and Oakley Capital Investments (OCI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Starwood European Real Estate Finance vs.

Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and Starwood European Real Estate Finance (LON:SWEF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

In the previous week, Starwood European Real Estate Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Scottish American Investment. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Starwood European Real Estate Finance and 0 mentions for Scottish American Investment. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Starwood European Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Scottish American Investment Neutral
Starwood European Real Estate Finance Positive

Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to Starwood European Real Estate Finance's net margin of 80.09%. Scottish American Investment's return on equity of 9.33% beat Starwood European Real Estate Finance's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scottish American Investment115.71% 9.33% 5.89%
Starwood European Real Estate Finance 80.09%6.79%N/A

Scottish American Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Scottish American Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starwood European Real Estate Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scottish American Investment£75.38M11.74£87.22M£49.8710.15
Starwood European Real Estate Finance£22.57M10.44£18.07M£6.6613.05

Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays out 90.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Starwood European Real Estate Finance received 79 more outperform votes than Scottish American Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Scottish American Investment an outperform vote while only 66.40% of users gave Starwood European Real Estate Finance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Scottish American InvestmentOutperform Votes
4
80.00%
Underperform Votes
1
20.00%
Starwood European Real Estate FinanceOutperform Votes
83
66.40%
Underperform Votes
42
33.60%

16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Scottish American Investment beats Starwood European Real Estate Finance on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SWEF vs. The Competition

MetricStarwood European Real Estate FinanceAsset Management IndustryFinance SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£235.50M£1.20B£11.47B£2.63B
Dividend Yield0.25%4.41%5.45%5.05%
P/E Ratio13.0521.9222.42131.94
Price / Sales10.442,337.6327.62224,643.37
Price / CashN/A60.4617.6228.03
Price / Book1.011.152.773.80
Net Income£18.07M£263.32M£1.03B£5.88B
7 Day Performance3.57%-0.17%-1.34%0.37%
1 Month Performance2.35%17.04%5.24%21.42%
1 Year Performance-7.45%2.49%538.04%129.67%

Starwood European Real Estate Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SWEF
Starwood European Real Estate Finance
N/AGBX 85
-2.3%
N/A-7.2%£230.08M£22.57M12.75N/AGap Down
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 515.80
-0.2%
N/A-2.9%£901.91M£75.38M10.34N/A
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 278.70
-0.3%
N/A+2.2%£896.79M£16.91M101.38N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,815
-0.2%
N/A+0.9%£895.47M£17.92M19.58N/A
TMPL
Temple Bar
N/AGBX 312
flat
N/A+15.5%£892.57M£157.64M5.79N/A
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M£-62,326,000.00-12.93N/A
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
SLPE
Standard Life Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 566
+0.2%
N/A+2.9%£870.20M£251.60M3.65N/APositive News
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 374
-0.5%
N/A-8.3%£868.24M£1.35M-93.03N/ANews Coverage
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 865
-0.1%
N/A-2.6%£864.21M£97.96M9.53147,000News Coverage
Negative News
Dividend Cut
OCI
Oakley Capital Investments
N/AGBX 485
-0.3%
N/A-0.2%£855.59M£99.08M9.72N/A

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This page (LON:SWEF) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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