SSON vs. PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust 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.
Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smithson Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Pershing Square had 1 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Smithson Investment Trust's score of 1.08 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 Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.
Smithson Investment Trust and Pershing Square both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Pershing Square beats Smithson Investment Trust on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SSON 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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