ABDN vs. PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
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 (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.
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 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.
In the previous week, abrdn had 2 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for abrdn and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat abrdn's score of 0.10 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
abrdn has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to abrdn's net margin of 0.07%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat abrdn's return on equity.
39.5% of abrdn shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
abrdn received 7 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Pershing Square beats abrdn on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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