HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

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

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in HICL or PSH?

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 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.

Is HICL or PSH a better dividend stock?

HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. 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.

Is HICL or PSH more profitable?

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 Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%
Pershing Square	75.97%	17.71%	11.83%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, HICL or PSH?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
HICL Infrastructure	£105.30M	23.53	£101.36M	£5.10	24.40
Pershing Square	£3.57B	2.75	£2.71B	£953.80	4.50

Which has more volatility & risk, HICL or PSH?

HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer HICL or PSH?

In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 3 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 1 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat HICL Infrastructure's score of 0.67 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
HICL Infrastructure	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Pershing Square	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Pershing Square beats HICL Infrastructure on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.