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Smithson Investment Trust (SSON) Competitors

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GBX 1,516 -10.00 (-0.66%)
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SSON vs. STJ, ICP, SDRC, MNG, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, ATST, and ABDN

Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust include St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Smithson Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors

St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.

St. James's Place presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,295, suggesting a potential upside of 8.96%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Smithson Investment Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
St. James's Place
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Smithson Investment Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

St. James's Place has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smithson Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
St. James's Place£26.27B0.24-£6.46M-£1.19-996.13
Smithson Investment Trust-£13.48M-143.77-£42.74M-£33.47-45.29

In the previous week, St. James's Place had 7 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for St. James's Place and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Smithson Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that St. James's Place is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
St. James's Place Neutral
Smithson Investment Trust Neutral

Smithson Investment Trust has a net margin of 317.04% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. St. James' Place's return on equity of -0.63% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
St. James's Place-0.02% -0.63% 0.22%
Smithson Investment Trust 317.04%-2.13%N/A

79.6% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

St. James's Place beats Smithson Investment Trust on 12 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

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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SSON vs. The Competition

MetricSmithson Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.94B£1.28B£6.32B£3.00B
Dividend YieldN/A4.38%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio-45.2922.1913.98169.74
Price / Sales-143.772,361.561,735.44285,731.24
Price / CashN/A60.71128.4827.97
Price / Book1.031.231.954.61
Net Income-£42.74M£263.65M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.17%0.10%0.41%2.60%
1 Month Performance2.81%3.15%3.75%8.73%
1 Year Performance7.52%5.41%18.39%64.80%

Smithson Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSON
Smithson Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,516
-0.7%
N/A+9.2%£1.94B-£13.48M-45.29N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
0.9567 of 5 stars
GBX 1,170
+0.7%
GBX 843.50
-27.9%
+115.1%£6.33B£26.27B-980.632,298Analyst Forecast
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
0.5708 of 5 stars
GBX 256.70
+1.4%
GBX 223.33
-13.0%
+24.7%£6.11B£9.02B36.616,101
SDR
Schroders
1.3938 of 5 stars
GBX 367.20
+1.2%
GBX 392.25
+6.8%
+1.8%£5.70B£2.78B16.046,438
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,117.11
-0.4%
N/A+10.8%£5.40B£981.19M5.79N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.6877 of 5 stars
N/AGBX 684
+∞
N/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 365.46
+0.1%
N/A-88.9%£4.31B£1.24B3.59120Positive News
Earnings Report
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
ABDN
abrdn
1.0599 of 5 stars
GBX 190.60
+2.0%
GBX 172
-9.8%
+18.4%£3.41B£1.49B10.844,719

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This page (LON:SSON) was last updated on 7/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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