ABDN vs. SMT, PSH, STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, FCIT, HL, and PCT
Should you be buying abrdn stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn vs. Its Competitors
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
abrdn presently has a consensus price target of GBX 172, suggesting a potential downside of 10.42%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe abrdn is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
Scottish Mortgage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than abrdn. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 2 mentions for abrdn. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat abrdn's score of 0.55 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. abrdn pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
38.2% of abrdn shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
abrdn has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Scottish Mortgage has a net margin of 94.48% compared to abrdn's net margin of 21.19%. Scottish Mortgage's return on equity of 11.53% beat abrdn's return on equity.
Summary
Scottish Mortgage beats abrdn on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ABDN) was last updated on 7/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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