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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
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.
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.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. 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.
abrdn presently has a consensus price target of GBX 195, suggesting a potential upside of 2.63%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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.
38.2% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, abrdn had 4 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for abrdn and 1 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat abrdn's score of 0.71 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
abrdn beats Scottish Mortgage on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ABDN) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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