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Strategic Equity Capital (SEC) Competitors

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SEC vs. HET, GROW, GCP, JUP, CHRY, PCFT, HSL, JLEN, BUT, and SEIT

Should you be buying Strategic Equity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Equity Capital include Henderson European Trust (HET), Molten Ventures (GROW), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Brunner (BUT), and SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Strategic Equity Capital vs. Its Competitors

Henderson European Trust (LON:HET) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Henderson European Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Strategic Equity Capital and 0 mentions for Henderson European Trust. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Henderson European Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Henderson European Trust Neutral
Strategic Equity Capital Positive

0.6% of Henderson European Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Henderson European Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.6% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Henderson European Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Strategic Equity Capital. Henderson European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Equity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Henderson European Trust-£16.02M-39.37£71.73M-£0.10-1,971.01
Strategic Equity Capital£8.16M20.03£25.65M£0.142,665.62

Henderson European Trust has a net margin of 95.15% compared to Strategic Equity Capital's net margin of 88.65%. Henderson European Trust's return on equity of 17.54% beat Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Henderson European Trust95.15% 17.54% 10.02%
Strategic Equity Capital 88.65%14.97%10.64%

Henderson European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Henderson European Trust pays out -42.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 25.0% 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. Henderson European Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Henderson European Trust has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Strategic Equity Capital beats Henderson European Trust on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SEC vs. The Competition

MetricStrategic Equity CapitalAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£162.31M£1.46B£6.36B£2.79B
Dividend Yield0.94%4.61%4.32%5.32%
P/E Ratio2,665.624,455.541,695.825,162.88
Price / Sales20.031,990.791,386.61101,256.49
Price / Cash8.7060.63127.5827.93
Price / Book0.951.393.726.30
Net Income£25.65M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.34%0.31%0.02%0.19%
1 Month Performance-0.34%1.39%2.46%50.41%
1 Year Performance2.67%6.82%27.76%154.75%

Strategic Equity Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SEC
Strategic Equity Capital
N/AGBX 373.72
-0.1%
N/A+2.7%£162.31M£8.16M2,665.62N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
HET
Henderson European Trust
N/AGBX 204
-0.7%
N/A+13.3%£676.48M£75.38M600.00N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
High Trading Volume
GROW
Molten Ventures
2.1041 of 5 stars
GBX 357.80
-0.9%
GBX 580
+62.1%
-12.7%£665.89M£9.10M-20.0120News Coverage
Insider Trade
GCP
GCP Infrastructure Investments
1.4111 of 5 stars
GBX 73.73
+0.2%
GBX 90
+22.1%
-6.9%£661.78M£74.34M42.441,950News Coverage
JUP
Jupiter Fund Management
0.7141 of 5 stars
GBX 125.20
-2.0%
GBX 105
-16.1%
+46.6%£649.40M£380.90M1,159.26522News Coverage
CHRY
Chrysalis Investments
N/AGBX 116.40
+0.2%
N/A+45.7%£648.48M-£20.59M6.70N/APositive News
Gap Up
PCFT
Polar Capital Global Financials
N/AGBX 209.50
-0.2%
N/A+19.0%£638.77M£125.99M5.58N/A
HSL
Henderson Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 856
-0.2%
N/A-3.8%£628.54M£98.67M6.86N/ANews Coverage
JLEN
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
N/AGBX 79.50
-1.1%
N/A-16.3%£625.42M-£12.30M-3,785.71N/A
BUT
Brunner
N/AGBX 1,434
+0.3%
N/A+2.8%£622.88M£111.40M5.94N/A
SEIT
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust
N/AGBX 56.70
-2.1%
N/A-8.1%£620.54M-£45.07M-10.96N/ANews Coverage
Positive News

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