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Law Debenture (LWDB) Competitors

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GBX 948 -5.00 (-0.52%)
As of 05/21/2025 11:53 AM Eastern

LWDB vs. PCT, ATST, 3IN, PHLL, ABDN, JGGI, BUR, RCP, EMG, and BPT

Should you be buying Law Debenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Law Debenture include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Petershill Partners (PHLL), abrdn (ABDN), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Burford Capital (BUR), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Man Group (EMG), and Bridgepoint Group (BPT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Law Debenture vs.

Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) and Law Debenture (LON:LWDB) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.

43.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.3% of Law Debenture shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of Law Debenture shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 96.56% compared to Law Debenture's net margin of 69.85%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 30.54% beat Law Debenture's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Polar Capital Technology Trust96.56% 30.54% 20.70%
Law Debenture 69.85%15.91%8.76%

Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Law Debenture. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Law Debenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Technology Trust£1.24B3.10£1.20B£101.863.22
Law Debenture£203.87M6.15£142.39M£107.458.82

Polar Capital Technology Trust received 4 more outperform votes than Law Debenture when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Law Debenture an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Polar Capital Technology TrustOutperform Votes
83
64.34%
Underperform Votes
46
35.66%
Law DebentureOutperform Votes
79
64.75%
Underperform Votes
43
35.25%

Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Law Debenture has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Law Debenture's score of 0.20 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Technology Trust Very Positive
Law Debenture Neutral

Summary

Polar Capital Technology Trust beats Law Debenture on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LWDB vs. The Competition

MetricLaw DebentureAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.25B£1.20B£5.34B£2.68B
Dividend Yield3.62%4.41%4.18%5.05%
P/E Ratio8.8221.7612.76134.32
Price / Sales6.152,409.521,770.92203,702.45
Price / Cash13.5360.4649.7128.02
Price / Book1.361.151.343.79
Net Income£142.39M£263.32M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance1.17%0.22%0.55%0.65%
1 Month Performance8.72%18.14%11.25%22.12%
1 Year Performance7.00%2.34%13.17%119.61%

Law Debenture Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LWDB
Law Debenture
N/AGBX 948
-0.5%
N/A+6.8%£1.25B£203.87M8.82260
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 330.05
+0.5%
N/A-89.2%£3.89B£1.24B3.24120News Coverage
Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 326.92
-1.1%
N/A-5.1%£3.02B£374M860.31N/A
PHLL
Petershill Partners
2.4685 of 5 stars
GBX 219
-0.2%
GBX 240
+9.6%
+5.9%£2.98B£706.00M8.89N/AGap Down
ABDN
abrdn
0.9491 of 5 stars
GBX 163.20
-0.1%
GBX 163.50
+0.2%
+10.4%£2.92B£1.49B9.284,719News Coverage
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 553.10
-0.2%
N/A-1.4%£2.85B£660.56M4.56N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BUR
Burford Capital
2.3279 of 5 stars
GBX 1,020
-5.6%
GBX 1,600
+56.9%
-8.7%£2.81B£299.55M18.25140Gap Down
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 1,884.70
-0.7%
N/A-0.3%£2.72B£103.46M16.2962Positive News
EMG
Man Group
2.9559 of 5 stars
GBX 176.44
-0.5%
GBX 278
+57.6%
-32.1%£2.55B£1.69B8.321,790High Trading Volume
BPT
Bridgepoint Group
2.6538 of 5 stars
GBX 294.40
+0.1%
GBX 359.33
+22.1%
+18.1%£2.43B£272.35M53.48391

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