SST vs. GRID, HNE, BIPS, HINT, JAGI, BRK, CTPE, CTUK, BOOK, and LWI
Should you be buying Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos include Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), Henderson EuroTrust (HNE), Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), Henderson International Income Trust (HINT), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), CT Private Equity Trust (CTPE), CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (CTUK), Literacy Capital (BOOK), and Lowland Investment (LWI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) and Gresham House Energy Storage (LON:GRID) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Gresham House Energy Storage has a consensus price target of GBX 184, suggesting a potential upside of 213.19%. Given Gresham House Energy Storage's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Gresham House Energy Storage is more favorable than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos.
75.9% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.3% of Gresham House Energy Storage shares are held by institutional investors. 8.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Gresham House Energy Storage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos received 99 more outperform votes than Gresham House Energy Storage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.63% of users gave Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Gresham House Energy Storage an outperform vote.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gresham House Energy Storage has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Gresham House Energy Storage pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. 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. Gresham House Energy Storage pays out -3,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gresham House Energy Storage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has higher revenue and earnings than Gresham House Energy Storage. Gresham House Energy Storage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a net margin of 75.42% compared to Gresham House Energy Storage's net margin of 0.00%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity of 11.37% beat Gresham House Energy Storage's return on equity.
In the previous week, Gresham House Energy Storage's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' score of 0.00 indicating that Gresham House Energy Storage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Gresham House Energy Storage on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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