BGS vs. THS, MED, FLO, PPC, DAR, BG, AFRI, FREE, ADM, and N91
Should you be buying Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon include Tharisa (THS), Intelligent Ultrasound Group plc (MED.L) (MED), Flowtech Fluidpower (FLO), President Energy (PPC), Dar Global (DAR), 16222865 (BG.L) (BG), AFRI.L (AFRI), FreeAgent (FREE), Admiral Group (ADM), and Ninety One Group (N91).
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon vs.
Tharisa (LON:THS) and Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (LON:BGS) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Tharisa received 138 more outperform votes than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.82% of users gave Tharisa an outperform vote while only 62.05% of users gave Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon an outperform vote.
3.9% of Tharisa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by institutional investors. 65.7% of Tharisa shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon shares are held by 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.
Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has a net margin of 101.98% compared to Tharisa's net margin of 11.49%. Tharisa's return on equity of 12.09% beat Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's return on equity.
Tharisa has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Tharisa presently has a consensus target price of GBX 130, indicating a potential upside of 136.36%. Given Tharisa's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Tharisa is more favorable than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon.
In the previous week, Tharisa had 2 more articles in the media than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Tharisa and 0 mentions for Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. Tharisa's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon's score of 0.00 indicating that Tharisa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tharisa pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Tharisa pays out 9.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon pays out -5.1% 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.
Tharisa has higher revenue and earnings than Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon. Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tharisa, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Tharisa beats Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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