HGT vs. SSON, CTY, PHLL, INPP, WWH, CLDN, STJ, MNKS, JGGI, and ABDN
Should you be buying HgCapital Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HgCapital Trust include Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), City of London (CTY), Petershill Partners (PHLL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), St. James's Place (STJ), Monks (MNKS), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
42.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Smithson Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Smithson Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 82.75% compared to Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 8.03% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Smithson Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Smithson Investment Trust on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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