GSCT vs. SDP, BBH, SYNC, ICGT, MRCH, JFJ, TMPL, TFIF, APEO, and NBPE
Should you be buying The Global Smaller Companies Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Global Smaller Companies Trust include Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Syncona (SYNC), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Merchants Trust (MRCH), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), Temple Bar (TMPL), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), and NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (LON:SDP) and The Global Smaller Companies Trust (LON:GSCT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Global Smaller Companies Trust has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Global Smaller Companies Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for The Global Smaller Companies Trust and 0 mentions for Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat The Global Smaller Companies Trust's score of 1.08 indicating that The Global Smaller Companies Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund received 103 more outperform votes than The Global Smaller Companies Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
The Global Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity of -3.17% beat Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund's return on equity.
The Global Smaller Companies Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Global Smaller Companies Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
58.1% of Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.9% of The Global Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of The Global Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by 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.
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. The Global Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund pays out -7,058.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Global Smaller Companies Trust pays out -3,333.3% 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. Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
The Global Smaller Companies Trust beats Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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