Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE) Competitors

3i Infrastructure (LON:3IN) and Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Is 3IN or SLPE a better dividend stock?

3i Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. 3i Infrastructure pays out 3,157.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do analysts recommend 3IN or SLPE?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
3i Infrastructure	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is 3IN or SLPE more profitable?

3i Infrastructure has a net margin of 92.78% compared to Standard Life Private Equity Trust's net margin of 0.00%. 3i Infrastructure's return on equity of 10.77% beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
3i Infrastructure	92.78%	10.77%	4.83%
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in 3IN or SLPE?

3i Infrastructure received 46 more outperform votes than Standard Life Private Equity Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.70% of users gave Standard Life Private Equity Trust an outperform vote while only 65.95% of users gave 3i Infrastructure an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
3i Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 184 65.95%	Underperform Votes 95 34.05%
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Outperform Votes 138 69.70%	Underperform Votes 60 30.30%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, 3IN or SLPE?

3i Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. Standard Life Private Equity Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
3i Infrastructure	£374M	7.89	£347M	£0.38	842.11
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.19	N/A	£155.20	3.36

Do institutionals & insiders believe in 3IN or SLPE?

55.1% of 3i Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of 3i Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer 3IN or SLPE?

In the previous week, 3i Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Standard Life Private Equity Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
3i Infrastructure	Neutral
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Neutral

Summary

3i Infrastructure beats Standard Life Private Equity Trust on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.