UKW vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying Greencoat UK Wind stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Greencoat UK Wind include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), 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), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and Greencoat UK Wind (LON:UKW) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greencoat UK Wind has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greencoat UK Wind received 46 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.28% of users gave Greencoat UK Wind an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.4% of Greencoat UK Wind shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Greencoat UK Wind shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Greencoat UK Wind has a net margin of 53.84% compared to Greencoat UK Wind's net margin of 0.00%. Scottish Mortgage's return on equity of 3.29% beat Greencoat UK Wind's return on equity.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Greencoat UK Wind pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greencoat UK Wind pays out 2,381.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 1 more articles in the media than Greencoat UK Wind. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 1 mentions for Greencoat UK Wind. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Greencoat UK Wind's score of 0.80 indicating that Greencoat UK Wind is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greencoat UK Wind has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greencoat UK Wind, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greencoat UK Wind beats Scottish Mortgage on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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