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Strategic Equity Capital (SEC) Competitors

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GBX 319.56 +0.06 (+0.02%)
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SEC vs. SCAM, GCP, SYNC, SCIN, PCFT, HET, MERI, BUT, CHRY, and SEIT

Should you be buying Strategic Equity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Equity Capital include Scottish American Investment (SCAM), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), Syncona (SYNC), The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Henderson European Trust (HET), Chrysalis Investments (MERI), Brunner (BUT), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), and SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Strategic Equity Capital vs.

Scottish American Investment (LON:SCAM) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Strategic Equity Capital received 22 more outperform votes than Scottish American Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.00% of users gave Strategic Equity Capital an outperform vote while only 67.80% of users gave Scottish American Investment an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Scottish American InvestmentOutperform Votes
80
67.80%
Underperform Votes
38
32.20%
Strategic Equity CapitalOutperform Votes
102
68.00%
Underperform Votes
48
32.00%

Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.12 per share. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Scottish American Investment pays out 0.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 576.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Strategic Equity Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Scottish American Investment. Scottish American Investment 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
Scottish American Investment£74.89M0.00N/A£46.00N/A
Strategic Equity Capital£29.71M5.12£27.29M£0.52614.53

58.2% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 91.84% compared to Scottish American Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity of 17.10% beat Scottish American Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scottish American InvestmentN/A N/A N/A
Strategic Equity Capital 91.84%17.10%10.64%

In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Scottish American Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Scottish American Investment Neutral
Strategic Equity Capital Positive

Summary

Strategic Equity Capital beats Scottish American Investment on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SEC vs. The Competition

MetricStrategic Equity CapitalAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£152.17M£1.12B£3.87B£2.05B
Dividend Yield0.67%4.67%4.43%5.17%
P/E Ratio614.53810.68429.431,931.84
Price / Sales5.121,487.982,873.68397,059.81
Price / Cash8.7066.0853.1729.27
Price / Book0.921.181.913.09
Net Income£27.29M£61.77M£439.94M£183.87M
7 Day Performance-2.21%0.99%1.48%1.55%
1 Month Performance-1.37%2.24%5.28%3.95%
1 Year Performance2.42%25.15%22.20%42.77%

Strategic Equity Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SEC
Strategic Equity Capital
N/AGBX 319.56
+0.0%
N/A+3.6%£152.17M£29.71M614.53N/APositive News
SCAM
Scottish American Investment
N/AN/AN/AN/A£603.25M£74.89M9.08N/A
GCP
GCP Infrastructure Investments
N/AGBX 69.50
-0.3%
N/A+2.9%£603.13M£26.98M-39.941,950Positive News
SYNC
Syncona
N/AGBX 93.10
+0.4%
N/A-15.8%£593.91M£30.75M9,310.001,208
SCIN
The Scottish Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£592.25M£51.43M1,570.1815News Coverage
PCFT
Polar Capital Global Financials
N/AGBX 194.80
+1.1%
N/A+36.3%£591.69M£126.59M526.49N/A
HET
Henderson European Trust
N/AGBX 177
+1.1%
N/AN/A£586.95M£75.38M520.59N/ADividend Announcement
MERI
Chrysalis Investments
N/AN/AN/AN/A£585.93MN/A0.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
BUT
Brunner
N/AGBX 1,370
+2.6%
N/A+23.1%£584.85M£109.49M566.12N/APositive News
CHRY
Chrysalis Investments
N/AGBX 97.80
-0.6%
N/A+49.3%£582.06MN/A-113.72N/AGap Up
SEIT
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust
N/AGBX 53.30
+0.9%
N/A-6.5%£580.97M£-94,900,000.00-533.00N/APositive News

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