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Monks (MNKS) Competitors

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GBX 1,493.13 +5.13 (+0.34%)
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MNKS vs. PSH, STJ, ICP, SDRC, MNG, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, and ATST

Should you be buying Monks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monks include Pershing Square (PSH), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Monks vs. Its Competitors

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and Monks (LON:MNKS) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.

Monks has a net margin of 96.67% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 75.97%. Monks' return on equity of 24.08% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square75.97% 17.71% 11.83%
Monks 96.67%24.08%9.21%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£1.20B6.97£2.71B£6.38737.80
Monks-£12.00M-219.26£589.71M-£0.08-17,924.77

8.9% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.1% of Monks shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Pershing Square shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Monks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Monks has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Monks had 12 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Monks and 1 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Monks' score of -0.37 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Monks
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Pershing Square pays out 9.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Monks pays out -25.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Summary

Pershing Square beats Monks on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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MNKS vs. The Competition

MetricMonksAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.63B£1.47B£6.49B£2.60B
Dividend Yield0.03%4.63%4.33%5.31%
P/E Ratio-17,924.774,840.241,804.335,453.09
Price / Sales-219.261,969.451,442.97261,795.58
Price / Cash90.9360.47127.9627.90
Price / Book1.181.362.118.00
Net Income£589.71M£264.59M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.69%0.70%3.90%11.57%
1 Month Performance6.35%1.64%6.33%15.38%
1 Year Performance26.54%9.05%34.00%138.52%

Monks Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MNKS
Monks
N/AGBX 1,493.13
+0.3%
N/A+27.2%£2.63B-£12.00M-17,924.77N/A
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,772
-0.1%
N/A+33.2%£8.51B£1.20B747.96N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
3.1833 of 5 stars
GBX 1,257
+0.3%
GBX 1,485
+18.1%
+75.9%£6.59B£16.94B1,332.982,298
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
1.0883 of 5 stars
GBX 251.40
-0.7%
GBX 266
+5.8%
+20.2%£5.95B£15.21B-1,664.906,101Positive News
SDR
Schroders
1.8807 of 5 stars
GBX 377.80
-0.1%
GBX 387
+2.4%
+7.6%£5.86B£3.02B1,694.176,438Positive News
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,187.42
-0.6%
N/A+17.6%£5.69B£367.41M1,643.49N/ADividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.7262 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 442.50
-0.1%
N/A+50.4%£5.07B£122.39M4,438.32120News Coverage
Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003

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This page (LON:MNKS) was last updated on 10/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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