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Kelso Group (KLSO) Competitors

GBX 1.95 +0.05 (+2.63%)
As of 04/25/2025

KLSO vs. CIP, PGIT, DNE, ADAM, VENC, ELTA, CLP, VEN, PBLT, and GV2O

Should you be buying Kelso Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kelso Group include CIP Merchant Capital (CIP), Premier Global Infrastructure Trust PLC (PGIT.L) (PGIT), Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust (DNE), Jade Road Investments (ADAM), Ventus VCT C (VENC), Electra Private Equity (ELTA), Clear Leisure (CLP), Ventus VCT (VEN), TOC Property Backed Lending Trust (PBLT), and Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 2 (GV2O). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Kelso Group vs.

Kelso Group (LON:KLSO) and CIP Merchant Capital (LON:CIP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.

5.8% of Kelso Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 66.7% of Kelso Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

CIP Merchant Capital received 9 more outperform votes than Kelso Group when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Kelso GroupN/AN/A
CIP Merchant CapitalOutperform Votes
9
69.23%
Underperform Votes
4
30.77%

Kelso Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CIP Merchant Capital. CIP Merchant Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kelso Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Kelso Group£3.54M2.12£2.11M£0.533.65
CIP Merchant Capital£8.87M0.00N/A£13.70N/A

Kelso Group has a net margin of 59.53% compared to CIP Merchant Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Kelso Group's return on equity of 39.51% beat CIP Merchant Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Kelso Group59.53% 39.51% -0.99%
CIP Merchant Capital N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, Kelso Group had 1 more articles in the media than CIP Merchant Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Kelso Group and 0 mentions for CIP Merchant Capital. Kelso Group's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat CIP Merchant Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Kelso Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Kelso Group Positive
CIP Merchant Capital Neutral

Summary

Kelso Group beats CIP Merchant Capital on 7 of the 11 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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KLSO vs. The Competition

MetricKelso GroupAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.51M£1.14B£3.82B£2.56B
Dividend YieldN/A4.45%4.21%4.84%
P/E Ratio3.6521.1212.96132.21
Price / Sales2.122,328.431,731.78241,113.65
Price / CashN/A61.4750.5928.31
Price / Book0.731.113.394.53
Net Income£2.11M£262.24M£1.18B£5.86B
7 Day Performance8.33%2.03%8.88%8.59%
1 Month Performance-10.88%4.32%9.46%6.35%
1 Year Performance-30.36%2.34%10.49%103.28%

Kelso Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KLSO
Kelso Group
N/AGBX 1.95
+2.6%
N/A-35.1%£7.51M£3.54M3.65N/AEarnings Report
Positive News
Gap Up
CIP
CIP Merchant Capital
N/AN/AN/AN/A£27.50M£8.87M3.65N/AGap Down
PGIT
Premier Global Infrastructure Trust PLC (PGIT.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.23M£-2,538,000.00-3.56N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
DNE
Dunedin Enterprise Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.15M£1.99M16.72N/A
ADAM
Jade Road Investments
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.17MN/A-7.21N/A
VENC
Ventus VCT C
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.00M£8.35M3.91N/AGap Down
ELTA
Electra Private Equity
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.87M£57.60M0.451
CLP
Clear Leisure
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.23M£39,000.00-13.504Gap Up
VEN
Ventus VCT
N/AN/AN/AN/A£23.81M£9.80M3.16450Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PBLT
TOC Property Backed Lending Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£23.16M£1.49M24.57314
GV2O
Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 2
N/AGBX 35
flat
N/AN/A£22.96MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:KLSO) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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