ABDN vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, STJ, SDR, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying abrdn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), St. James's Place (STJ), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn vs.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and abrdn (LON:ABDN) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and valuation.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, abrdn had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled abrdn'saverage media sentiment score.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 75.97% compared to abrdn's net margin of 21.19%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat abrdn's return on equity.
abrdn received 7 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
abrdn has a consensus price target of GBX 155, suggesting a potential downside of 4.32%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe abrdn is more favorable than Pershing Square.
6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by 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.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Pershing Square pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. abrdn pays out 85.3% 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 has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
abrdn beats Pershing Square on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ABDN) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
