ATST vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and UKW
Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), 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), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 2 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 2 mentions for Alliance Trust. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat Alliance Trust's score of 0.90 indicating that Alliance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.26% compared to Alliance Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Scottish Mortgage's return on equity of 19.25% beat Alliance Trust's return on equity.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Trust pays out 1,244.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Alliance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Alliance Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Mortgage received 25 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
Summary
Alliance Trust beats Scottish Mortgage on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ATST 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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