PNL vs. STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, ATST, and ABDN
Should you be buying Personal Assets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Personal Assets include St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Personal Assets vs. Its Competitors
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Personal Assets (LON:PNL) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and risk.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. St. James's Place pays out -1,173.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Personal Assets pays out 15.3% 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. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
St. James's Place currently has a consensus target price of GBX 843.50, indicating a potential downside of 28.58%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Personal Assets.
79.6% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 46.0% of Personal Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Personal Assets has a net margin of 116.31% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 7.96% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, St. James's Place and St. James's Place both had 1 articles in the media. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.30 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Personal Assets has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. James's Place. St. James's Place 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
Personal Assets beats St. James's Place on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:PNL) was last updated on 7/8/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
