AJB vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying AJ Bell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AJ Bell include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), 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.
AJ Bell (LON:AJB) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, AJ Bell had 6 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for AJ Bell and 2 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat AJ Bell's score of 0.22 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AJ Bell pays out 6,000.0% 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 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.
AJ Bell presently has a consensus price target of GBX 385.50, indicating a potential downside of 13.18%. Given AJ Bell's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than Pershing Square.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to AJ Bell's net margin of 33.20%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 49.62% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.
AJ Bell received 37 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
49.8% of AJ Bell shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. 30.6% of AJ Bell shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held 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.
AJ Bell has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than AJ Bell. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AJ Bell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AJ Bell beats Pershing Square on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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