RIT Capital Partners (RCP) Competitors

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

Do institutionals and insiders believe in RCP or PSH?

22.9% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 41.4% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held 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.

Which has more volatility & risk, RCP or PSH?

RIT Capital Partners has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor RCP or PSH?

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 2 more articles in the media than RIT Capital Partners. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for RIT Capital Partners. RIT Capital Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.61 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.58 indicating that RIT Capital Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
RIT Capital Partners	Very Positive
Pershing Square	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in RCP or PSH?

RIT Capital Partners received 152 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
RIT Capital Partners	Outperform Votes 152 67.26%	Underperform Votes 74 32.74%
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A

Is RCP or PSH a better dividend stock?

RIT Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 39 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. RIT Capital Partners pays out 2,407.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, RCP or PSH?

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than RIT Capital Partners. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RIT Capital Partners, 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
RIT Capital Partners	£314.90M	8.78	£240.20M	£1.62	1,186.42
Pershing Square	£3.14B	2.08	£2.49B	£10.54	337.57

Is RCP or PSH more profitable?

Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to RIT Capital Partners' net margin of 76.28%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat RIT Capital Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RIT Capital Partners	76.28%	6.68%	4.22%
Pershing Square	79.14%	22.66%	11.83%

Summary

Pershing Square beats RIT Capital Partners on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.