PCT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, and ATST
Should you be buying Polar Capital Technology Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Technology Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 94.25% compared to Polar Capital Technology Trust's net margin of 3.81%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 17.53% beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity.
Legal & General Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 301, indicating a potential upside of 22.36%. Given Polar Capital Technology Trust's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Polar Capital Technology Trust.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legal & General Group. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Legal & General Group received 1159 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.
47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.9% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 5 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's score of 1.13 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Polar Capital Technology Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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