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Law Debenture (LWDB) Competitors

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GBX 905 +2.00 (+0.22%)
As of 02/21/2025 11:46 AM Eastern

LWDB vs. PCT, PHLL, ATST, BUR, BPT, JGGI, EMG, 3IN, ABDN, and RCP

Should you be buying Law Debenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Law Debenture include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Alliance Trust (ATST), Burford Capital (BUR), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Man Group (EMG), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), abrdn (ABDN), and RIT Capital Partners (RCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Law Debenture vs.

Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) and Law Debenture (LON:LWDB) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Law Debenture. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Law Debenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Technology Trust£1.24B3.45£1.20B£101.863.57
Law Debenture£203.87M5.87£142.39M£107.458.42

Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 96.56% compared to Law Debenture's net margin of 69.85%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 30.54% beat Law Debenture's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Polar Capital Technology Trust96.56% 30.54% 20.70%
Law Debenture 69.85%15.91%8.76%

43.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Law Debenture shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Law Debenture shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Polar Capital Technology Trust received 4 more outperform votes than Law Debenture when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Law Debenture an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Polar Capital Technology TrustOutperform Votes
83
64.34%
Underperform Votes
46
35.66%
Law DebentureOutperform Votes
79
64.75%
Underperform Votes
43
35.25%

In the previous week, Law Debenture had 1 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Law Debenture and 0 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Law Debenture's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Law Debenture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Technology Trust Neutral
Law Debenture Positive

Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Law Debenture has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Law Debenture beats Polar Capital Technology Trust on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LWDB vs. The Competition

MetricLaw DebentureAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.20B£1.23B£4.24B£2.63B
Dividend Yield3.62%4.47%4.22%4.98%
P/E Ratio8.4226.9916.05163.46
Price / Sales5.872,363.901,771.06312,330.40
Price / Cash13.5360.5748.8928.04
Price / Book1.291.153.405.15
Net Income£142.39M£256.58M£1.27B£5.73B
7 Day Performance-0.88%-0.32%-0.17%-0.99%
1 Month Performance0.44%0.63%1.82%-0.80%
1 Year Performance16.32%10.14%14.57%39.35%

Law Debenture Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LWDB
Law Debenture
N/AGBX 905
+0.2%
N/A+17.5%£1.20B£203.87M8.42260News Coverage
Positive News
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 377.50
+0.3%
N/A-87.0%£4.45B£1.24B3.71120
PHLL
Petershill Partners
1.8794 of 5 stars
GBX 269
+0.7%
GBX 245.33
-8.8%
+51.8%£3.65B£706.00M10.91N/AGap Up
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
BUR
Burford Capital
2.9276 of 5 stars
GBX 1,193
+0.8%
GBX 1,600
+34.1%
+0.7%£3.28B£299.55M21.34140Positive News
BPT
Bridgepoint Group
1.2626 of 5 stars
GBX 395.60
+1.6%
GBX 334
-15.6%
+33.1%£3.27B£272.35M71.87391Gap Up
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 603
+0.3%
N/A+11.5%£3.11B£660.56M4.97N/A
EMG
Man Group
3.3343 of 5 stars
GBX 212.80
-1.1%
GBX 291.17
+36.8%
-10.8%£3.07B£1.69B10.041,790News Coverage
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 321.28
-0.1%
N/A-3.0%£2.96B£374M845.47N/A
ABDN
abrdn
1.22 of 5 stars
GBX 156.25
-0.5%
GBX 155
-0.8%
-3.5%£2.80B£1.49B8.884,719News Coverage
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 1,936.19
+0.0%
N/A+7.5%£2.79B£103.46M16.7462High Trading Volume

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