Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) released its earnings results on Friday. The company reported GBX (0.14) earnings per share for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos had a negative return on equity of 2.07% and a negative net margin of 16.42%.The business had revenue of GBX 222 million during the quarter.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Trading Down 0.7%

SST stock traded down GBX 2 during midday trading on Friday, reaching GBX 267. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 116,542 shares, compared to its average volume of 180,859. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 7.82, a quick ratio of 7.77 and a current ratio of 2.39. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of GBX 261.36 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of GBX 272.28. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a 1 year low of GBX 240 and a 1 year high of GBX 310. The firm has a market capitalization of £300.35 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -38.98 and a beta of 0.30.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Company Profile

The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by First Sentier Investors (UK) Funds Limited. It is co-managed by First State Investment Management (UK) Limited. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Asia, excluding Japan and Australasia. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in stocks of small-cap companies having market capitalizations below $1.5 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI AC Asia (ex Japan) Index.