HVPE vs. SDR, ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, and STJ
Should you be buying HarbourVest Global Private Equity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HarbourVest Global Private Equity include Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), and St. James's Place (STJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroders (LON:SDR) and HarbourVest Global Private Equity (LON:HVPE) 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 media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.
Schroders currently has a consensus price target of GBX 432, indicating a potential upside of 12.38%. Given HarbourVest Global Private Equity's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Schroders is more favorable than HarbourVest Global Private Equity.
In the previous week, Schroders had 1 more articles in the media than HarbourVest Global Private Equity. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Schroders and 0 mentions for HarbourVest Global Private Equity. HarbourVest Global Private Equity's average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat Schroders' score of 0.20 indicating that Schroders is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Schroders has higher revenue and earnings than HarbourVest Global Private Equity. HarbourVest Global Private Equity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroders, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HarbourVest Global Private Equity has a net margin of 89.44% compared to HarbourVest Global Private Equity's net margin of 13.48%. HarbourVest Global Private Equity's return on equity of 9.00% beat Schroders' return on equity.
36.5% of Schroders shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.3% of HarbourVest Global Private Equity shares are held by institutional investors. 43.1% of Schroders shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of HarbourVest Global Private Equity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Schroders has a beta of 1.18, indicating that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HarbourVest Global Private Equity has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroders received 410 more outperform votes than HarbourVest Global Private Equity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave HarbourVest Global Private Equity an outperform vote while only 60.25% of users gave Schroders an outperform vote.
Summary
Schroders beats HarbourVest Global Private Equity on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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