MNKS vs. PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying Monks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monks include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and Monks (LON:MNKS) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Pershing Square pays out 436.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Monks pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pershing Square is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of -3.97%. Monks' return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Monks shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Monks shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Monks. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monks has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Monks had 12 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Monks and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. Monks' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Pershing Square's score of -0.16 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Monks received 86 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Pershing Square beats Monks on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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