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Alliance Trust (ATST) Competitors

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GBX 1,272 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 12/11/2024)

ATST vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, STJ, and MNG

Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), and M&G (MNG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Alliance Trust vs.

Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Legal & General Group received 1138 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 71.85% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Alliance TrustOutperform Votes
110
73.33%
Underperform Votes
40
26.67%
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1248
71.85%
Underperform Votes
489
28.15%

Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 276.67, indicating a potential upside of 22.74%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Alliance Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Alliance Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

Alliance Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. Alliance Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Alliance Trust£652.76M5.49£601.66M£2.12600.00
Legal & General Group£12.32B1.07£281M£0.054,508.00

Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 1 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for Alliance Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Alliance Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Alliance Trust Neutral
Legal & General Group Positive

Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.17% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 2.46%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 17.93% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Alliance Trust92.17% 17.93% 10.95%
Legal & General Group 2.46%6.51%0.18%

6.9% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Alliance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Alliance Trust pays out 1,226.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Legal & General Group pays out 42,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Legal & General Group beats Alliance Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ATST vs. The Competition

MetricAlliance TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£3.58B£1.09B£3.72B£1.95B
Dividend Yield2.24%4.66%4.43%5.17%
P/E Ratio600.00808.65421.301,929.32
Price / Sales5.491,463.831,748.92460,223.11
Price / Cash38.0664.8552.4929.20
Price / Book1.001.151.922.33
Net Income£601.66M£63.97M£435.92M£183.41M
7 Day Performance4.78%0.33%2.24%0.08%
1 Month Performance0.47%-0.04%1.67%30.16%
1 Year Performance16.27%7.74%10.39%153.13%

Alliance Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AGBX 1,272
flat
N/A+16.3%£3.58B£652.76M600.003
LGEN
Legal & General Group
2.2448 of 5 stars
GBX 228.80
-1.5%
GBX 276.67
+20.9%
-9.9%£13.36B£12.32B4,644.0011,956Positive News
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
0.0399 of 5 stars
GBX 959.60
-1.3%
N/A+21.3%£13.24B£-712,340,000.00-1,869.62N/ANews Coverage
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,886
-2.0%
N/A+9.2%£7.15B£3.14B374.62N/ADividend Increase
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.2743 of 5 stars
GBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,132
-0.8%
N/A+16.8%£5.55B£1.02B593.75N/A
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.8279 of 5 stars
GBX 1,094
-0.2%
GBX 1,048.20
-4.2%
+53.3%£5.19B£764.90M1,764.521,850High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.2932 of 5 stars
GBX 316.98
-0.3%
GBX 368.50
+16.3%
-29.1%£5.10B£2.93B1,325.006,438
STJ
St. James's Place
0.9575 of 5 stars
GBX 905
-1.0%
GBX 784.25
-13.3%
+27.0%£4.89B£26.80B-91,400.002,298
MNG
M&G
0.6919 of 5 stars
GBX 198.35
-0.7%
GBX 223.33
+12.6%
-13.7%£4.72B£6.21B2,853.576,101

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This page (LON:ATST) was last updated on 12/25/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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