CTY vs. PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying City of London stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of City of London include Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), 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.
City of London (LON:CTY) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment and community ranking.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than City of London. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City of London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City of London has a net margin of 90.48% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat City of London's return on equity.
City of London has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
7.7% of City of London shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of City of London shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company 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.
City of London received 68 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
City of London pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. City of London pays out 8,400.0% 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.
In the previous week, Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat City of London's score of 0.00 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Pershing Square beats City of London on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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