PAC vs. LIO, PCGH, POLN, JUP, JEGI, NESF, UEM, ATR, MTW, and CGI
Should you be buying Pacific Assets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Assets include Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM), Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR), Mattioli Woods (MTW), and Canadian General Investments (CGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Liontrust Asset Management (LON:LIO) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 12 more articles in the media than Liontrust Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Pacific Assets and 10 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management. Pacific Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Liontrust Asset Management's score of 0.11 indicating that Liontrust Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liontrust Asset Management presently has a consensus target price of GBX 755, suggesting a potential upside of 9.74%. Given Pacific Assets' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Liontrust Asset Management is more favorable than Pacific Assets.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 68.83% compared to Pacific Assets' net margin of 7.45%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 8.84% beat Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity.
67.7% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.6% of Pacific Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 13.1% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Pacific Assets shares are held by 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.
Liontrust Asset Management received 296 more outperform votes than Pacific Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.42% of users gave Liontrust Asset Management an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote.
Pacific Assets has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Liontrust Asset Management. Pacific Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liontrust Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liontrust Asset Management has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Liontrust Asset Management pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Assets pays out 952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
Liontrust Asset Management beats Pacific Assets on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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