HL vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying Hargreaves Lansdown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hargreaves Lansdown include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a net margin of 40.05% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 3.81%. Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity of 45.80% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.
Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Hargreaves Lansdown pays out 6,087.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
56.5% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.8% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by company 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.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreaves Lansdown. Hargreaves Lansdown is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hargreaves Lansdown currently has a consensus price target of GBX 959, indicating a potential downside of 9.14%. Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 301, indicating a potential upside of 20.40%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Hargreaves Lansdown.
Legal & General Group received 839 more outperform votes than Hargreaves Lansdown when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 47.69% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hargreaves Lansdown and Hargreaves Lansdown both had 4 articles in the media. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of 0.17 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Hargreaves Lansdown on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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