HGT vs. PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying HgCapital Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HgCapital Trust include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.
HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.43, meaning that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HgCapital Trust pays out 1,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square 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 and HgCapital Trust both had 2 articles in the media. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.84 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
41.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 5.2% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Pershing Square on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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