HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

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

Which has more volatility & risk, HICL or PSH?

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

Which has better 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	£35.20M	67.97	£30.50M	£0.02	5,921.95
Pershing Square	£3.14B	2.11	£2.49B	£10.54	341.88

Is HICL or PSH more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 86.65% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
HICL Infrastructure	86.65%	0.93%	0.58%
Pershing Square	79.14%	22.66%	11.83%

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

54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HICL or PSH?

HICL Infrastructure received 166 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
HICL Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 166 72.81%	Underperform Votes 62 27.19%
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A

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 6.8%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. HICL Infrastructure pays out 40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.

Does the media favor HICL or PSH?

In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 3 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.07 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Summary

HICL Infrastructure and Pershing Square tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.