ATST vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, and UKW
Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Scottish Mortgage received 25 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Alliance Trust pays out 1,244.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Alliance Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Scottish Mortgage'saverage media sentiment score.
Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
6.5% of Alliance Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Alliance Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.26% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 19.25% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alliance Trust beats Scottish Mortgage on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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