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HgCapital Trust (HGT) Competitors

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GBX 496.50 +0.50 (+0.10%)
As of 09/12/2025 12:43 PM Eastern

HGT vs. PSH, STJ, ICP, SDRC, MNG, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, and ATST

Should you be buying HgCapital Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HgCapital Trust include Pershing Square (PSH), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

HgCapital Trust vs. Its Competitors

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.

HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 91.03% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 75.97%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square75.97% 17.71% 11.83%
HgCapital Trust 91.03%11.93%6.88%

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Pershing Square pays out 9.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HgCapital Trust pays out 12.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HgCapital Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£1.20B6.93£2.71B£6.38733.54
HgCapital Trust£247.62M9.18£284.58M£0.52962.58

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 5 more articles in the media than HgCapital Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Pershing Square and 1 mentions for HgCapital Trust. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.81 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
HgCapital Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

8.9% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.1% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Pershing Square beats HgCapital Trust on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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HGT vs. The Competition

MetricHgCapital TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.27B£1.43B£6.37B£2.58B
Dividend Yield1.12%4.58%4.31%5.30%
P/E Ratio962.584,757.921,776.555,410.94
Price / Sales9.181,965.451,347.7896,691.90
Price / Cash3.6960.62127.4727.93
Price / Book0.941.362.067.77
Net Income£284.58M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.30%13.33%7.06%6.51%
1 Month Performance-2.84%13.34%7.50%55.94%
1 Year PerformanceN/A8.49%30.87%147.85%

HgCapital Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
HGT
HgCapital Trust
N/AGBX 496.50
+0.1%
N/A-2.3%£2.27B£247.62M962.58N/A
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,366
+0.8%
N/A+32.1%£7.82B£1.20B684.33N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
3.1802 of 5 stars
GBX 1,227.81
+0.6%
GBX 1,485
+20.9%
+75.9%£6.48B£16.94B1,302.032,298News Coverage
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
0.9073 of 5 stars
GBX 258.10
+0.5%
GBX 255
-1.2%
+25.1%£6.11B£11.26B-1,709.276,101Analyst Forecast
SDR
Schroders
2.4023 of 5 stars
GBX 365.67
+1.2%
GBX 387
+5.8%
+12.7%£5.67B£3.02B1,639.776,438News Coverage
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,155
-0.1%
N/A+15.6%£5.55B£367.41M1,598.62N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.9961 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850News Coverage
High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 393
+0.8%
N/A-85.5%£4.53B£122.39M3,941.83120News Coverage
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003

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This page (LON:HGT) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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