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HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

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GBX 120.60 -0.40 (-0.33%)
As of 08/1/2025 11:55 AM Eastern

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

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

HICL Infrastructure vs. Its Competitors

HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) 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 valuation, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and risk.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
HICL Infrastructure£105.30M22.81£101.36M£5.1023.66
Pershing Square£3.57B2.63£2.71B£953.804.31

In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.00 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
HICL Infrastructure Neutral
Pershing Square Neutral

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 75.97%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
HICL Infrastructure96.27% 3.24% 0.58%
Pershing Square 75.97%17.71%11.83%

HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HICL Infrastructure pays out 156.9% 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 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less 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.

54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Pershing Square beats HICL Infrastructure on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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HICL vs. The Competition

MetricHICL InfrastructureAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.40B£1.29B£6.33B£3.03B
Dividend Yield7.10%4.40%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio23.6622.3614.03176.74
Price / Sales22.812,556.001,858.76264,367.15
Price / Cash1,644.0060.70127.5327.97
Price / Book0.771.452.244.54
Net Income£101.36M£265.04M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-3.67%-0.34%-0.46%-0.92%
1 Month Performance3.25%0.63%1.90%6.15%
1 Year Performance-4.29%6.54%19.37%71.63%

HICL Infrastructure Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HICL
HICL Infrastructure
N/AGBX 120.60
-0.3%
N/A-6.5%£2.40B£105.30M23.66N/A
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,260
+1.1%
N/A+8.3%£9.75B£3.57B4.47N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
1.0605 of 5 stars
GBX 1,192
-1.3%
GBX 1,295
+8.6%
+87.1%£6.45B£26.27B-999.072,298News Coverage
Earnings Report
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDR
Schroders
1.5343 of 5 stars
GBX 401.40
-0.3%
GBX 386.25
-3.8%
+6.7%£6.23B£2.78B17.536,438News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
0.8554 of 5 stars
GBX 256.40
-1.3%
GBX 243.75
-4.9%
+22.9%£6.11B£9.02B36.566,101News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,149
-0.3%
N/A+10.3%£5.55B£981.19M5.95N/ANews Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
1.1707 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850Positive News
High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 382.49
-1.5%
N/A-87.3%£4.51B£1.24B3.76120Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003

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This page (LON:HICL) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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