HGT vs. PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying HgCapital Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HgCapital Trust include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), 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.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 79.14%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 22.66% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.97 beat Pershing Square's score of 1.66 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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. HgCapital Trust pays out 1,400.0% 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 has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Pershing Square and HgCapital Trust tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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