PCT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, and ATST
Should you be buying Polar Capital Technology Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Technology Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
Legal & General Group received 1159 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 94.25% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 3.81%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 17.53% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 301, suggesting a potential upside of 21.52%. Given Legal & General Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Polar Capital Technology Trust.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 5 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's score of 1.14 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
42.9% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. Polar Capital Technology Trust 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.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Polar Capital Technology Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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