HL vs. PCT, ATST, 3IN, EMG, MNG, RCP, BUR, FCIT, IIG, and ABDN
Should you be buying Hargreaves Lansdown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hargreaves Lansdown include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), M&G (MNG), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Burford Capital (BUR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hargreaves Lansdown currently has a consensus target price of GBX 921.20, indicating a potential upside of 13.20%. Given Hargreaves Lansdown's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hargreaves Lansdown is more favorable than Polar Capital Technology Trust.
57.1% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.8% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Hargreaves Lansdown had 18 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown and 1 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of 0.36 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hargreaves Lansdown. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreaves Lansdown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 94.25% compared to Hargreaves Lansdown's net margin of 40.05%. Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity of 45.80% beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity.
Hargreaves Lansdown received 317 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote while only 47.56% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.
Summary
Hargreaves Lansdown beats Polar Capital Technology Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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