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Pershing Square (PSH) Competitors

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GBX 3,854 +84.00 (+2.23%)
(As of 07:50 AM ET)

PSH vs. LGEN, SMT, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, STJ, MNG, and PCT

Should you be buying Pershing Square stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pershing Square include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Pershing Square vs.

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group 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.

Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 276.67, indicating a potential upside of 22.74%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Pershing Square.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pershing Square
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.59 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square Positive
Legal & General Group Positive

Pershing Square has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£3.14B2.26£2.49B£10.54365.65
Legal & General Group£12.32B1.07£281M£0.054,508.00

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 2.46%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square79.14% 22.66% 11.83%
Legal & General Group 2.46%6.51%0.18%

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. 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. Legal & General Group pays out 42,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Legal & General Group received 1248 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pershing SquareN/AN/A
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1248
71.85%
Underperform Votes
489
28.15%

Summary

Legal & General Group beats Pershing Square on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PSH vs. The Competition

MetricPershing SquareAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.09B£1.04B£3.68B£1.94B
Dividend Yield1.09%4.65%4.43%5.28%
P/E Ratio365.65808.64421.271,925.27
Price / Sales2.261,463.731,748.78458,381.01
Price / Cash0.5664.8552.4929.16
Price / Book0.591.151.912.34
Net Income£2.49B£63.69M£434.96M£182.88M
7 Day Performance-0.67%-0.46%0.67%-0.05%
1 Month Performance5.94%0.16%1.86%26.34%
1 Year Performance9.18%7.90%10.44%151.59%

Pershing Square Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,854
+2.2%
N/A+6.8%£7.09B£3.14B365.65N/ADividend Increase
LGEN
Legal & General Group
2.2414 of 5 stars
GBX 228.80
-1.5%
GBX 276.67
+20.9%
-10.4%£13.36B£12.32B4,576.0011,956Positive News
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
0.0369 of 5 stars
GBX 959.60
-1.3%
N/A+20.5%£13.24B£-712,340,000.00-1,845.38N/A
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.2708 of 5 stars
GBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,132
-0.7%
N/A+16.2%£5.55B£1.02B589.58N/A
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.8271 of 5 stars
GBX 1,094
-0.2%
GBX 1,048.20
-4.2%
+53.2%£5.19B£764.90M1,764.521,850High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.2998 of 5 stars
GBX 316.98
-0.3%
GBX 368.50
+16.3%
-29.8%£5.10B£2.93B1,320.756,438
STJ
St. James's Place
0.9513 of 5 stars
GBX 905
-1.0%
GBX 784.25
-13.3%
+26.4%£4.89B£26.80B-90,500.002,298
MNG
M&G
0.6943 of 5 stars
GBX 198.35
-0.7%
GBX 223.33
+12.6%
-13.7%£4.72B£6.21B2,833.576,101
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 349
+0.4%
N/A-86.3%£4.15B£1.15B383.52120News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:PSH) was last updated on 12/24/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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