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Ruffer Investment (RICA) Competitors

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As of 04/17/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

RICA vs. ATST, PCT, PHLL, 3IN, BUR, JGGI, RCP, EMG, ABDN, and HGT

Should you be buying Ruffer Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ruffer Investment include Alliance Trust (ATST), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Petershill Partners (PHLL), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Burford Capital (BUR), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Man Group (EMG), abrdn (ABDN), and HgCapital Trust (HGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Ruffer Investment vs.

Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.

In the previous week, Ruffer Investment had 1 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ruffer Investment and 0 mentions for Alliance Trust. Ruffer Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Alliance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Ruffer Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Alliance Trust Neutral
Ruffer Investment Positive

Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Ruffer Investment. Alliance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alliance Trust£652.76M0.00£601.66M£2.12N/A
Ruffer Investment£16.91M52.71£8.78M£2.75100.76

6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Alliance Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Alliance Trust received 13 more outperform votes than Ruffer Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alliance TrustOutperform Votes
110
73.33%
Underperform Votes
40
26.67%
Ruffer InvestmentOutperform Votes
97
63.82%
Underperform Votes
55
36.18%

Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.17% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 51.94%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 17.93% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alliance Trust92.17% 17.93% 10.95%
Ruffer Investment 51.94%0.96%0.45%

Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share. Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Alliance Trust pays out 1,226.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ruffer Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Alliance Trust beats Ruffer Investment on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RICA vs. The Competition

MetricRuffer InvestmentAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£891.32M£1.10B£3.69B£2.51B
Dividend Yield1.83%4.36%4.15%4.79%
P/E Ratio100.7623.5613.96130.39
Price / Sales52.712,227.551,653.93234,760.20
Price / Cash10.9960.9950.4028.28
Price / Book1.011.103.344.42
Net Income£8.78M£261.75M£1.24B£5.89B
1 Month Performance-0.72%1.30%0.35%-1.36%
1 Year Performance2.40%1.63%14.74%41.35%

Ruffer Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 277
flat
N/A+2.4%£891.32M£16.91M100.76N/A
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 269.50
+5.5%
N/A-90.6%£3.18B£1.24B2.65120Positive News
PHLL
Petershill Partners
2.6598 of 5 stars
GBX 208
+2.0%
GBX 240
+15.4%
+9.6%£2.83B£706.00M8.44N/ANews Coverage
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 305
+1.0%
N/A-0.8%£2.81B£374M802.63N/A
BUR
Burford Capital
2.7453 of 5 stars
GBX 959
+7.0%
GBX 1,600
+66.8%
-12.3%£2.64B£299.55M17.16140
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 504.14
+5.0%
N/A-8.9%£2.60B£660.56M4.15N/AHigh Trading Volume
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 1,783
+3.5%
N/A-0.3%£2.57B£103.46M15.4162News Coverage
EMG
Man Group
3.0315 of 5 stars
GBX 169.30
+2.8%
GBX 281.67
+66.4%
-41.7%£2.44B£1.69B7.991,790News Coverage
ABDN
abrdn
1.7761 of 5 stars
GBX 130.40
+2.5%
GBX 163.50
+25.4%
+0.1%£2.33B£1.49B7.414,719News Coverage
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HGT
HgCapital Trust
N/AGBX 481
+6.1%
N/A+6.1%£2.23B£312.64M7.95N/AInsider Trade
News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:RICA) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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