HL vs. ICP, UKW, FCIT, MNG, TRIG, HICL, ATST, 3IN, RCP, and EMG
Should you be buying Hargreaves Lansdown stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hargreaves Lansdown include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), Alliance Trust (ATST), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), and Man Group (EMG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hargreaves Lansdown vs.
Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 47.33% compared to Hargreaves Lansdown's net margin of 39.17%. Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity of 44.09% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.59, meaning that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
56.1% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.8% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.1% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Intermediate Capital Group received 5 more outperform votes than Hargreaves Lansdown when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.57% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 47.35% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.
Hargreaves Lansdown presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,073.22, suggesting a potential upside of 31.33%. Intermediate Capital Group has a consensus target price of GBX 2,022, suggesting a potential upside of 41.55%. Given Intermediate Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than Hargreaves Lansdown.
Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 83 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Hargreaves Lansdown pays out 7,547.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 7,280.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Intermediate Capital Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreaves Lansdown. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreaves Lansdown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hargreaves Lansdown and Hargreaves Lansdown both had 1 articles in the media. Hargreaves Lansdown's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Hargreaves Lansdown is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Intermediate Capital Group beats Hargreaves Lansdown on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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