SYNC vs. HGT, MNKS, CTY, HICL, INPP, CLDN, QLT, SSON, TEM, and JAM
Should you be buying Syncona stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Syncona include HgCapital Trust (HGT), Monks (MNKS), City of London (CTY), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Quilter (QLT), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), and JPMorgan American (JAM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Syncona vs.
HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Syncona (LON:SYNC) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Syncona. Syncona is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Syncona. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 4 mentions for Syncona. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Syncona's score of 0.69 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Syncona has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Syncona pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. HgCapital Trust pays out 11.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Syncona pays out -73.8% 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. Syncona is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 91.03% compared to Syncona's net margin of -310.53%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 11.93% beat Syncona's return on equity.
41.7% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.1% of Syncona shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Syncona shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HgCapital Trust received 13 more outperform votes than Syncona when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.15% of users gave HgCapital Trust an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Syncona an outperform vote.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Syncona on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SYNC) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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