SWEF vs. RICA, CGT, NBPE, JEO, SAIN, APEO, TMPL, IEM, SLPE, and TFIF
Should you be buying Starwood European Real Estate Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starwood European Real Estate Finance include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Temple Bar (TMPL), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), and TwentyFour Income (TFIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Starwood European Real Estate Finance vs.
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and Starwood European Real Estate Finance (LON:SWEF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Ruffer Investment received 14 more outperform votes than Starwood European Real Estate Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.40% of users gave Starwood European Real Estate Finance an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.
Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Starwood European Real Estate Finance pays out 90.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Starwood European Real Estate Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Ruffer Investment and Ruffer Investment both had 1 articles in the media. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's average media sentiment score of -0.22 beat Ruffer Investment's score of -0.77 indicating that Starwood European Real Estate Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Starwood European Real Estate Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Ruffer Investment. Starwood European Real Estate Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.3% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starwood European Real Estate Finance shares are owned 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.
Starwood European Real Estate Finance has a net margin of 80.09% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 51.94%. Starwood European Real Estate Finance's return on equity of 6.79% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Starwood European Real Estate Finance beats Ruffer Investment on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:SWEF) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
