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New Star Investment Trust (NSI) Competitors

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GBX 102 -1.00 (-0.97%)
As of 04/25/2025 12:28 PM Eastern

NSI vs. AAIF, BGHS, NCYF, HHI, BBH, GSF, MTE, EAT, STS, and SJG

Should you be buying New Star Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Star Investment Trust include abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), Boussard & Gavaudan GBP (BGHS), CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), Montanaro European Smaller (MTE), European Assets Trust (EAT), STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS), and Schroder Japan Trust (SJG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

New Star Investment Trust vs.

abrdn Asian Income Fund (LON:AAIF) and New Star Investment Trust (LON:NSI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends and earnings.

abrdn Asian Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. New Star Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. abrdn Asian Income Fund pays out 42.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Star Investment Trust pays out 15.6% 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.

New Star Investment Trust has a net margin of 92.75% compared to abrdn Asian Income Fund's net margin of 85.32%. abrdn Asian Income Fund's return on equity of 11.73% beat New Star Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
abrdn Asian Income Fund85.32% 11.73% 7.35%
New Star Investment Trust 92.75%11.02%1.81%

abrdn Asian Income Fund has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Star Investment Trust has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

59.9% of abrdn Asian Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.6% of abrdn Asian Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 76.1% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

abrdn Asian Income Fund received 80 more outperform votes than New Star Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.56% of users gave abrdn Asian Income Fund an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave New Star Investment Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
abrdn Asian Income FundOutperform Votes
98
76.56%
Underperform Votes
30
23.44%
New Star Investment TrustOutperform Votes
18
54.55%
Underperform Votes
15
45.45%

abrdn Asian Income Fund has higher revenue and earnings than New Star Investment Trust. New Star Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn Asian Income Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
abrdn Asian Income Fund£49.66M6.04£42.37M£28.297.11
New Star Investment Trust£16.99M4.58£15.76M£19.275.29

In the previous week, abrdn Asian Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than New Star Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn Asian Income Fund and 0 mentions for New Star Investment Trust. abrdn Asian Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled New Star Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
abrdn Asian Income Fund Neutral
New Star Investment Trust Neutral

Summary

abrdn Asian Income Fund beats New Star Investment Trust on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NSI vs. The Competition

MetricNew Star Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£77.74M£1.13B£3.80B£2.54B
Dividend Yield0.24%4.45%4.21%4.83%
P/E Ratio5.2921.6012.95131.94
Price / Sales4.582,317.711,724.98240,178.45
Price / Cash3.5461.2950.3828.11
Price / Book0.531.113.384.50
Net Income£15.76M£261.57M£1.17B£5.82B
7 Day Performance-2.86%2.00%8.85%8.60%
1 Month Performance-10.17%3.88%9.27%6.40%
1 Year Performance-11.30%2.34%10.55%103.14%

New Star Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NSI
New Star Investment Trust
N/AGBX 102
-1.0%
N/A-11.3%£77.74M£16.99M5.29N/AHigh Trading Volume
AAIF
abrdn Asian Income Fund
N/AGBX 202
-0.5%
N/A-2.4%£301.46M£49.66M7.14N/ANews Coverage
BGHS
Boussard & Gavaudan GBP
N/AN/AN/AN/A£300.90M£-12,390,000.00-1,890.63N/AGap Up
NCYF
CQS New City High Yield
N/AGBX 50.85
+0.5%
N/A-2.7%£298.85M£53.40M6.38N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
HHI
Henderson High Income Trust
N/AGBX 170.47
+0.9%
N/A+8.7%£294.58M£39.56M8.66N/APositive News
BBH
Bellevue Healthcare
N/AGBX 119
-0.7%
N/A-13.5%£293.28M£-9,595,061.74-18.10N/A
GSF
Gore Street Energy Storage Fund
N/AGBX 56.23
-2.2%
N/A-9.0%£289.83M£7.38M-48.60N/APositive News
MTE
Montanaro European Smaller
N/AGBX 152
flat
N/A+12.9%£289.12M£57.06M5.52N/APositive News
EAT
European Assets Trust
N/AGBX 79.96
+0.5%
N/A-4.1%£287.57M£35.04M10.29N/AGap Up
STS
STS Global Income & Growth Trust
N/AGBX 231.77
-0.1%
N/A+9.2%£283.88M£20.58M15.466Positive News
SJG
Schroder Japan Trust
N/AGBX 240.60
+0.3%
N/A-2.4%£281.99M£60.80M4.72N/ADividend Cut
Positive News

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