PSH vs. III, LGEN, SMT, SDR, ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, and PCT
Should you be buying Pershing Square stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pershing Square include 3i Group (III), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
3i Group (LON:III) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
56.8% of 3i Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 3.4% of 3i Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
3i Group has a net margin of 95.86% compared to 3i Group's net margin of 79.14%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 27.62% beat 3i Group's return on equity.
3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 3i Group pays out 1,217.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
3i Group has higher revenue and earnings than Pershing Square. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3i Group has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
3i Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,800, suggesting a potential downside of 4.31%. Given Pershing Square's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Pershing Square.
In the previous week, 3i Group had 7 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for 3i Group and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. 3i Group's average media sentiment score of 1.97 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.18 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3i Group received 420 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
3i Group beats Pershing Square on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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