BGUK vs. CGT, FSV, RICA, JPE, BBGI, MUT, SAIN, JEO, OTV2, and APEO
Should you be buying Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust include Capital Gearing (CGT), Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Ruffer Investment (RICA), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Growth (JPE), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), Murray Income Trust (MUT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (LON:BGUK) and Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has a net margin of 10.18% compared to Capital Gearing's net margin of 0.00%. Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's return on equity of 0.12% beat Capital Gearing's return on equity.
47.6% of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of Capital Gearing shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Capital Gearing shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Gearing has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Capital Gearing pays out -9,523.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Capital Gearing had 2 more articles in the media than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Capital Gearing and 0 mentions for Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust. Capital Gearing's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Capital Gearing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Gearing.
Capital Gearing received 107 more outperform votes than Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.56% of users gave Capital Gearing an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust beats Capital Gearing on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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