PNL vs. FEV, HVPE, WTAN, JAM, RAT, TEM, QLT, MYI, PIN, and BPT
Should you be buying Personal Assets Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Personal Assets Trust include Fidelity European Trust (FEV), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), JPMorgan American (JAM), Rathbones Group (RAT), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Quilter (QLT), Murray International (MYI), Pantheon International (PIN), and Bridgepoint Group (BPT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fidelity European Trust (LON:FEV) and Personal Assets Trust (LON:PNL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation and media sentiment.
Fidelity European Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Assets Trust has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Personal Assets Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Fidelity European Trust pays out 1,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Personal Assets Trust pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity European Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fidelity European Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Personal Assets Trust. Fidelity European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Personal Assets Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Fidelity European Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Personal Assets Trust and 0 mentions for Fidelity European Trust. Fidelity European Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Personal Assets Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Personal Assets Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Personal Assets Trust received 46 more outperform votes than Fidelity European Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.26% of users gave Fidelity European Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets Trust an outperform vote.
69.2% of Fidelity European Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Personal Assets Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fidelity European Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Personal Assets Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity European Trust has a net margin of 90.56% compared to Fidelity European Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Personal Assets Trust's return on equity of 16.08% beat Fidelity European Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Fidelity European Trust beats Personal Assets Trust on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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