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Should you be buying Polar Capital Global Financials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Global Financials include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Monks (MNKS), City of London (CTY), HgCapital Trust (HGT), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Quilter (QLT), and The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Polar Capital Global Financials vs.
Polar Capital Global Financials (LON:PCFT) and Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.
78.0% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Polar Capital Global Financials has a net margin of 91.44% compared to Bridgepoint Group's net margin of 16.74%. Polar Capital Global Financials' return on equity of 22.02% beat Bridgepoint Group's return on equity.
Polar Capital Global Financials has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bridgepoint Group. Polar Capital Global Financials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Polar Capital Global Financials received 96 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 78.26% of users gave Polar Capital Global Financials an outperform vote.
Bridgepoint Group has a consensus price target of GBX 359.33, suggesting a potential upside of 31.14%. Given Bridgepoint Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Polar Capital Global Financials.
Polar Capital Global Financials pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Polar Capital Global Financials pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bridgepoint Group pays out 163.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Polar Capital Global Financials has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Polar Capital Global Financials had 1 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Polar Capital Global Financials and 1 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Bridgepoint Group's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Polar Capital Global Financials' score of 0.34 indicating that Bridgepoint Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bridgepoint Group beats Polar Capital Global Financials on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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