RICA vs. ATST, BUR, BPT, JGGI, EMG, 3IN, ABDN, RCP, MNKS, and HVPE
Should you be buying Ruffer Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ruffer Investment include Alliance Trust (ATST), Burford Capital (BUR), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Man Group (EMG), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), abrdn (ABDN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Monks (MNKS), and HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ruffer Investment vs.
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
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.
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 0.00 equaled Alliance Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
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.
43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Alliance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share. 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. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Alliance Trust beats Ruffer Investment on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RICA) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
