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Smithson Investment Trust (SSON) Competitors

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GBX 1,439.16 +9.16 (+0.64%)
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SSON vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, MNG, STJ, PCT, and ATST

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

Smithson Investment Trust vs.

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

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 2 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Smithson Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square Neutral
Smithson Investment Trust Neutral

Pershing Square and Smithson Investment Trust both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pershing SquareN/AN/A
Smithson Investment TrustN/AN/A

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smithson Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£3.14B2.09£2.49B£10.54339.10
Smithson Investment TrustN/AN/AN/A£2.27633.99

Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square79.14% 22.66% 11.83%
Smithson Investment Trust N/A N/A N/A

Summary

Pershing Square beats Smithson Investment Trust on 7 of the 10 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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SSON vs. The Competition

MetricSmithson Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.33B£806.40M£3.26B£1.39B
Dividend YieldN/A13.33%4.58%11.73%
P/E Ratio633.99771.52441.061,551.34
Price / SalesN/A13,882.173,276.38209,137.85
Price / CashN/A80.2548.2332.93
Price / BookN/A1.701.482.80
Net IncomeN/A£57.49M£396.75M£152.70M
7 Day Performance-2.76%0.08%0.14%-0.51%
1 Month Performance1.21%-0.45%7.05%7.08%
1 Year Performance11.30%10.03%15.55%91.78%

Smithson Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SSON
Smithson Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,439.16
+0.6%
N/A+9.7%£2.33BN/A633.99N/A
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,574.10
+0.9%
N/A+13.8%£6.58B£3.14B336.05N/ADividend Increase
Insider Trade
Gap Up
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AGBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AGBX 2,165
-2.0%
N/A+0.0%£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,100
+0.4%
N/A+20.6%£5.39B£1.02B570.83N/A
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.9826 of 5 stars
GBX 1,088.50
+0.1%
GBX 1,048.20
-3.7%
+49.9%£5.16B£764.90M1,755.651,850High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.9895 of 5 stars
GBX 309.60
flat
GBX 368.50
+19.0%
-23.9%£4.98B£2.93B1,295.006,438
MNG
M&G
1.0882 of 5 stars
GBX 201
+0.6%
GBX 223.33
+11.1%
-3.0%£4.78B£6.21B2,855.006,101
STJ
St. James's Place
0.6524 of 5 stars
GBX 823.50
-1.3%
GBX 784.25
-4.8%
+21.4%£4.45B£26.80B-83,400.002,298
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 328
flat
N/A-86.6%£3.90B£1.15B360.44120News Coverage
Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AGBX 1,214
+0.3%
N/A+17.7%£3.42B£652.76M589.623

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This page (LON:SSON) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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