SCF vs. IEM, BGSC, ICGT, SLS, ESCT, VOF, TRG, GSCT, SDP, and APAX
Should you be buying Schroder Income Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Income Growth include Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), The European Smaller Companies Trust (TRG), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), and Apax Global Alpha (APAX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder Income Growth vs.
Schroder Income Growth (LON:SCF) and Impax Environmental Markets (LON:IEM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Schroder Income Growth has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impax Environmental Markets has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
10.8% of Schroder Income Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.2% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Schroder Income Growth shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Schroder Income Growth and Schroder Income Growth both had 1 articles in the media. Schroder Income Growth's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Impax Environmental Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that Schroder Income Growth is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Schroder Income Growth has a net margin of 91.20% compared to Impax Environmental Markets' net margin of -691.26%. Schroder Income Growth's return on equity of 17.23% beat Impax Environmental Markets' return on equity.
Schroder Income Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Impax Environmental Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Schroder Income Growth pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Impax Environmental Markets pays out -124.4% 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.
Schroder Income Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Impax Environmental Markets. Impax Environmental Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder Income Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Impax Environmental Markets received 2 more outperform votes than Schroder Income Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.68% of users gave Schroder Income Growth an outperform vote while only 66.99% of users gave Impax Environmental Markets an outperform vote.
Summary
Schroder Income Growth beats Impax Environmental Markets on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SCF) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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