Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE) Competitors

Petershill Partners (LON:PHLL) and Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Is PHLL or SLPE a better dividend stock?

Petershill Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Petershill Partners pays out 48.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% 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.

Does the media prefer PHLL or SLPE?

In the previous week, Petershill Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Petershill Partners and 1 mentions for Standard Life Private Equity Trust. Standard Life Private Equity Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Petershill Partners' score of 0.21 indicating that Standard Life Private Equity Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Petershill Partners	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, PHLL or SLPE?

Petershill Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. Standard Life Private Equity Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Petershill 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
Petershill Partners	£706.00M	4.52	£420.55M	£24.65	9.54
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.41	N/A	£155.20	3.60

Is PHLL or SLPE more profitable?

Petershill Partners has a net margin of 59.57% compared to Standard Life Private Equity Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Petershill Partners' return on equity of 7.17% beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Petershill Partners	59.57%	7.17%	5.95%
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts recommend PHLL or SLPE?

Petershill Partners presently has a consensus price target of GBX 245.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.40%. Given Petershill Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Petershill Partners is more favorable than Standard Life Private Equity Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Petershill Partners	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals & insiders believe in PHLL or SLPE?

89.3% of Petershill Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Petershill Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PHLL or SLPE?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust received 123 more outperform votes than Petershill Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Petershill Partners an outperform vote while only 69.70% of users gave Standard Life Private Equity Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Petershill Partners	Outperform Votes 15 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Outperform Votes 138 69.70%	Underperform Votes 60 30.30%

Summary

Petershill Partners beats Standard Life Private Equity Trust on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.