BSV vs. SAIN, N91, JEO, APEO, MUT, OCI, ICGT, SLPE, BBGI, and JFJ
Should you be buying British Smaller Companies VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Smaller Companies VCT include Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Ninety One Group (N91), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Murray Income Trust (MUT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), and JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
British Smaller Companies VCT vs.
British Smaller Companies VCT (LON:BSV) and Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 86.08% compared to British Smaller Companies VCT's net margin of 78.85%. Scottish American Investment's return on equity of 9.46% beat British Smaller Companies VCT's return on equity.
Scottish American Investment has higher revenue and earnings than British Smaller Companies VCT. Scottish American Investment 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 pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. British Smaller Companies VCT pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish American Investment pays out 2,800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
British Smaller Companies VCT received 33 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 74.00% of users gave British Smaller Companies VCT an outperform vote.
0.3% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of British Smaller Companies VCT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
British Smaller Companies VCT has a beta of 0.02, meaning that its stock price is 98% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish American Investment has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, British Smaller Companies VCT had 9 more articles in the media than Scottish American Investment. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for British Smaller Companies VCT and 1 mentions for Scottish American Investment. British Smaller Companies VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that British Smaller Companies VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Scottish American Investment beats British Smaller Companies VCT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:BSV) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
