HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE) Competitors

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HarbourVest Global Private Equity (LON:HVPE) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends and earnings.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PSH or HVPE?

HarbourVest Global Private Equity received 63 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A
HarbourVest Global Private Equity	Outperform Votes 63 63.64%	Underperform Votes 36 36.36%

Is PSH or HVPE more profitable?

Pershing Square has a net margin of 75.97% compared to HarbourVest Global Private Equity's net margin of 37.99%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat HarbourVest Global Private Equity's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pershing Square	75.97%	17.71%	11.83%
HarbourVest Global Private Equity	37.99%	0.26%	2.14%

Does the media prefer PSH or HVPE?

In the previous week, HarbourVest Global Private Equity had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for HarbourVest Global Private Equity and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. HarbourVest Global Private Equity's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Pershing Square's score of -0.20 indicating that HarbourVest Global Private Equity is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square	Neutral
HarbourVest Global Private Equity	Positive

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of PSH or HVPE?

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.0% of HarbourVest Global Private Equity shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of HarbourVest Global Private Equity shares are held by company 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.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, PSH or HVPE?

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

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square	£3.57B	2.39	£2.71B	£953.80	3.91
HarbourVest Global Private Equity	£32.28M	70.73	£12.26M	£10.63	232.26

Which has more risk and volatility, PSH or HVPE?

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarbourVest Global Private Equity has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Pershing Square beats HarbourVest Global Private Equity on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.