HICL vs. PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying HICL Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HICL Infrastructure include Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) 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 valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.6% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Pershing Square's score of 1.06 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 93.30% compared to HICL Infrastructure's net margin of 79.14%. HICL Infrastructure's return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. 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. HICL Infrastructure pays out 8,000.0% 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 has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HICL Infrastructure received 166 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
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.
Summary
Pershing Square beats HICL Infrastructure on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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