Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST) Competitors

Stelrad Group (LON:SRAD) and Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.

Is SRAD or SST a better dividend stock?

Stelrad Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Stelrad Group pays out 68.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays out 5.0% 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.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in SRAD or SST?

35.5% of Stelrad Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by institutional investors. 64.4% of Stelrad Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is SRAD or SST more profitable?

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a net margin of 77.82% compared to Stelrad Group's net margin of 5.25%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity of 28.42% beat Stelrad Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stelrad Group	5.25%	28.08%	7.46%
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos	77.82%	28.42%	8.03%

Does the media refer more to SRAD or SST?

In the previous week, Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos had 1 more articles in the media than Stelrad Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos and 0 mentions for Stelrad Group. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Stelrad Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Stelrad Group	Neutral
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos	Neutral

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, SRAD or SST?

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stelrad Group. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stelrad Group, 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
Stelrad Group	£306.97M	0.60	£16.13M	£11.64	11.86
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos	£78.23M	0.82	£60.88M	£261.69	1.06

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in SRAD or SST?

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos received 101 more outperform votes than Stelrad Group when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Stelrad Group	N/A	N/A
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos	Outperform Votes 101 70.63%	Underperform Votes 42 29.37%

Which has more risk and volatility, SRAD or SST?

Stelrad Group has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Stelrad Group on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.