STJ vs. PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying St. James's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. James's Place include Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), 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.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
St. James's Place received 739 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Pershing Square had 2 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for St. James's Place. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.26 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.05%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
78.5% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
St. James's Place currently has a consensus target price of GBX 646.75, suggesting a potential upside of 29.45%. Given St. James' Place's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Pershing Square.
Pershing Square has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pershing Square, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. St. James's Place pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Pershing Square beats St. James's Place on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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