BSV vs. CGT, NBPE, JEO, RICA, APEO, SAIN, TMPL, SLPE, OCI, and MUT
Should you be buying British Smaller Companies VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Smaller Companies VCT include Capital Gearing (CGT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Ruffer Investment (RICA), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Temple Bar (TMPL), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Smaller Companies VCT vs.
British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV) and Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, British Smaller Companies VCT had 1 more articles in the media than Capital Gearing. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for British Smaller Companies VCT and 1 mentions for Capital Gearing. Capital Gearing's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat British Smaller Companies VCT's score of 0.38 indicating that Capital Gearing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
0.3% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of Capital Gearing shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Capital Gearing shares are held 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.
British Smaller Companies VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. British Smaller Companies VCT pays out 139.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Gearing pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Capital Gearing has higher revenue and earnings than British Smaller Companies VCT. Capital Gearing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Smaller Companies VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
British Smaller Companies VCT has a beta of 0.02, suggesting that its share price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Gearing has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Gearing received 84 more outperform votes than British Smaller Companies VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.56% of users gave Capital Gearing an outperform vote while only 74.00% of users gave British Smaller Companies VCT an outperform vote.
Capital Gearing has a net margin of 255.48% compared to British Smaller Companies VCT's net margin of 66.78%. Capital Gearing's return on equity of 5.25% beat British Smaller Companies VCT's return on equity.
Summary
Capital Gearing beats British Smaller Companies VCT on 13 of the 17 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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This page (LON:BSV) was last updated on 3/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
