HICL vs. PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying HICL Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HICL Infrastructure include Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), 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 HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 93.30% compared to HICL Infrastructure's net margin of 79.14%. HICL Infrastructure's return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its stock price is 72% 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%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. 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. HICL Infrastructure pays out 8,000.0% 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, 48.6% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat HICL Infrastructure's score of 0.84 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HICL Infrastructure. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HICL Infrastructure received 166 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Pershing Square and HICL Infrastructure tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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