ATST vs. HL, PCT, EMG, 3IN, RCP, IIG, BUR, HICL, JGGI, and ABDN
Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology (PCT), Man Group (EMG), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), Burford Capital (BUR), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Hargreaves Lansdown received 287 more outperform votes than Alliance Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 47.37% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 95.33% compared to Alliance Trust's net margin of 40.05%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 45.80% beat Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity.
Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hargreaves Lansdown pays out 6,087.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alliance Trust pays out 1,748.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Hargreaves Lansdown had 3 more articles in the media than Alliance Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown and 1 mentions for Alliance Trust. Hargreaves Lansdown's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Alliance Trust's score of 0.28 indicating that Alliance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hargreaves Lansdown. Alliance 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.
57.1% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.7% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 25.8% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of Alliance Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hargreaves Lansdown currently has a consensus target price of GBX 887.75, suggesting a potential upside of 20.91%. Given Alliance Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hargreaves Lansdown is more favorable than Alliance Trust.
Summary
Hargreaves Lansdown beats Alliance Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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