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HgCapital Trust (HGT) Competitors

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GBX 512 +2.00 (+0.39%)
(As of 11:53 AM ET)

HGT vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, STJ, MNG, PCT, and ATST

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

HgCapital Trust vs.

HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HgCapital Trust£255.96M9.16£230.52M£0.501,024.00
Pershing Square£3.14B2.27£2.49B£10.54367.93

HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
HgCapital TrustOutperform Votes
110
62.15%
Underperform Votes
67
37.85%
Pershing SquareN/AN/A

HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. HgCapital Trust pays out 1,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.

HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HgCapital Trust90.06% 10.52% 6.88%
Pershing Square 79.14%22.66%11.83%

HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

41.7% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.4% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 3 more articles in the media than HgCapital Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat HgCapital Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
HgCapital Trust Neutral
Pershing Square Positive

Summary

Pershing Square beats HgCapital Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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HGT vs. The Competition

MetricHgCapital TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.34B£818.56M£3.30B£1.41B
Dividend Yield1.26%13.38%4.55%11.77%
P/E Ratio1,020.00764.20446.891,563.90
Price / Sales9.1613,869.693,074.47297,901.50
Price / Cash3.6980.5548.4333.22
Price / Book1.021.711.482.87
Net Income£230.52M£57.48M£396.76M£153.33M
7 Day Performance-0.01%-1.30%5.47%18.10%
1 Month Performance-4.83%11.85%8.32%18.15%
1 Year Performance22.20%6.54%10.57%23.31%

HgCapital Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HGT
HgCapital Trust
N/AGBX 512
+0.4%
N/A+22.2%£2.34B£255.96M1,020.00N/A
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,886
-2.0%
N/A+13.8%£7.15B£3.14B374.62N/ADividend Increase
News Coverage
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.4021 of 5 stars
GBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/A+29.4%£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AGBX 2,165
-2.0%
N/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750News Coverage
High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,132
-0.8%
N/A+17.5%£5.55B£1.02B593.75N/APositive News
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.6496 of 5 stars
GBX 1,094
-0.2%
GBX 1,048.20
-4.2%
+52.2%£5.19B£764.90M1,764.521,850News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.4016 of 5 stars
GBX 316.98
-0.3%
GBX 368.50
+16.3%
-28.7%£5.10B£2.93B1,325.006,438
STJ
St. James's Place
0.983 of 5 stars
GBX 905
-1.0%
GBX 784.25
-13.3%
N/A£4.89B£26.80B-91,400.002,298
MNG
M&G
0.8966 of 5 stars
GBX 198.35
-0.7%
GBX 223.33
+12.6%
-11.4%£4.72B£6.21B2,853.576,101Positive News
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 349
+0.4%
N/A-86.4%£4.15B£1.15B381.87120
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AGBX 1,272
-0.5%
N/A+16.7%£3.58B£652.76M572.643

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This page (LON:HGT) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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