SST vs. GEN, SPT, DOCS, YOU, WIX, CNIC, API, SRAD, NET, and GVP
Should you be buying Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos include Genuit Group (GEN), Spirent Communications (SPT), Dr. Martens (DOCS), YouGov (YOU), Wickes Group (WIX), CentralNic Group (CNIC), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Stelrad Group (SRAD), Netcall (NET), and Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust (GVP). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos vs.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) and Genuit Group (LON:GEN) 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.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a net margin of 75.42% compared to Genuit Group's net margin of 4.26%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity of 11.37% beat Genuit Group's return on equity.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos received 67 more outperform votes than Genuit Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 87.18% of users gave Genuit Group an outperform vote while only 70.63% of users gave Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos an outperform vote.
78.2% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of Genuit Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Genuit Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Genuit Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays out 778.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Genuit Group pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Genuit Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos had 1 more articles in the media than Genuit Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos and 1 mentions for Genuit Group. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Genuit Group's score of -0.19 indicating that Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Genuit Group has a consensus price target of GBX 512.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.61%. Given Genuit Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Genuit Group is more favorable than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genuit Group. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Genuit Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Genuit Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SST) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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