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 (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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group received 839 more outperform votes than Hargreaves Lansdown when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 47.75% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.
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 target price of GBX 991.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.35%. Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 301, indicating a potential upside of 20.84%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Hargreaves Lansdown.
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.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 2 more articles in the media than Hargreaves Lansdown. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Legal & General Group and 4 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of 0.87 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
56.5% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 25.8% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Hargreaves Lansdown on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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