HGT vs. PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying HgCapital Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HgCapital Trust include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), 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.
HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less 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.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
41.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 1 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat HgCapital Trust's score of 1.18 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HgCapital Trust pays out 1,400.0% 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 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.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.
Summary
HgCapital Trust and Pershing Square tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HGT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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