IPO vs. PNL, JTC, WTAN, BRW, MYI, FGT, SNN, ATT, PIN, and RAT
Should you be buying IP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IP Group include Personal Assets (PNL), JTC (JTC), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Murray International (MYI), Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), Sanne Group (SNN), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), Pantheon International (PIN), and Rathbones Group (RAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
IP Group vs.
IP Group (LON:IPO) and Personal Assets (LON:PNL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk and profitability.
70.2% of IP Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.0% of Personal Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of IP Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, IP Group had 9 more articles in the media than Personal Assets. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for IP Group and 0 mentions for Personal Assets. IP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Personal Assets' score of 0.00 indicating that IP Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Personal Assets has a net margin of 66.46% compared to IP Group's net margin of 0.00%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 2.49% beat IP Group's return on equity.
IP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. IP Group pays out -454.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Personal Assets pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IP Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
IP Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 126, suggesting a potential upside of 200.86%. Given IP Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe IP Group is more favorable than Personal Assets.
IP Group has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
IP Group received 253 more outperform votes than Personal Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.47% of users gave IP Group an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.
Personal Assets has higher revenue and earnings than IP Group. IP Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IP Group beats Personal Assets on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:IPO) was last updated on 11/19/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
