LTHM vs. PCT, SLI, SEE, PURE, FUL, VGAS, PRM, ALB, MOS, and ADES
Should you be buying James Latham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of James Latham include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (SLI), Seeing Machines (SEE), PureCircle (PURE), Fulham Shore (FUL), Volga Gas (VGAS), Proteome Sciences (PRM), Albert Technologies (ALB), Mobile Streams (MOS), and ADES International (ADES). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
James Latham (LON:LTHM) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Polar Capital Technology Trust had 2 more articles in the media than James Latham. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust and 2 mentions for James Latham. Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat James Latham's score of 0.20 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than James Latham. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than James Latham, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
James Latham received 91 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.36% of users gave James Latham an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 97.18% compared to James Latham's net margin of 6.18%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 33.63% beat James Latham's return on equity.
James Latham has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
9.3% of James Latham shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 45.1% of James Latham shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Polar Capital Technology Trust beats James Latham on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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