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.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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. 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.
6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 79.14%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
In the previous week, Pershing Square and Pershing Square both had 2 articles in the media. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat HgCapital Trust's score of 0.84 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Pershing Square on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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