HICL vs. MNKS, STJ, TRIG, INPP, JGGI, PHLL, ABDN, SSON, HGT, and BUR
Should you be buying HICL Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HICL Infrastructure include Monks (MNKS), St. James's Place (STJ), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), International Public Partnerships (INPP), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Petershill Partners (PHLL), abrdn (ABDN), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), HgCapital Trust (HGT), and Burford Capital (BUR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) and Monks (LON:MNKS) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 93.30% compared to Monks' net margin of -3.97%. HICL Infrastructure's return on equity of 2.07% beat Monks' return on equity.
In the previous week, Monks had 18 more articles in the media than HICL Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Monks and 2 mentions for HICL Infrastructure. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Monks' score of 0.07 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HICL Infrastructure received 80 more outperform votes than Monks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Monks an outperform vote.
HICL Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Monks. HICL Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.6% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Monks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Monks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HICL Infrastructure pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. HICL Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monks has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HICL Infrastructure beats Monks on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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