Monks (MNKS) Competitors

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

Is PSH or MNKS a better dividend stock?

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Pershing Square pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Monks pays out 0.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Which has more volatility and risk, PSH or MNKS?

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monks has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor PSH or MNKS?

In the previous week, Monks had 15 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Monks and 4 mentions for Pershing Square. Monks' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.17 indicating that Monks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Monks	10 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PSH or MNKS?

Monks received 86 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A
Monks	Outperform Votes 86 64.18%	Underperform Votes 48 35.82%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, PSH or MNKS?

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Monks. Monks is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pershing Square, 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
Pershing Square	£3.57B	2.29	£2.71B	£953.80	3.75
Monks	£610.03M	3.61	£589.71M	£308.06	3.71

Is PSH or MNKS more profitable?

Monks has a net margin of 96.67% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 75.97%. Monks' return on equity of 24.08% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pershing Square	75.97%	17.71%	11.83%
Monks	96.67%	24.08%	9.21%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PSH or MNKS?

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Monks shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Monks shares are owned by 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.

Summary

Monks beats Pershing Square on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.