ATST vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, and PCT
Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and community ranking.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.26% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 3.81%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 19.25% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Alliance Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Legal & General Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Alliance Trust and 2 mentions for Legal & General Group. Alliance Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.49 indicating that Alliance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Alliance Trust pays out 1,244.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 285.80, indicating a potential upside of 24.53%. Given Legal & General Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Alliance Trust.
Legal & General Group received 1135 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 71.84% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote.
Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
6.5% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Alliance Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Alliance Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. Alliance 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
Alliance Trust beats Legal & General Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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