Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT) Competitors

Polar Capital Global Financials (LON:PCFT) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and risk.

Is PCFT or HICL more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to Polar Capital Global Financials' net margin of 91.44%. Polar Capital Global Financials' return on equity of 22.02% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Polar Capital Global Financials	91.44%	22.02%	12.59%
HICL Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%

Which has more risk and volatility, PCFT or HICL?

Polar Capital Global Financials has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PCFT or HICL a better dividend stock?

Polar Capital Global Financials pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Polar Capital Global Financials pays out 13.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HICL Infrastructure pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PCFT or HICL?

HICL Infrastructure received 58 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Global Financials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.26% of users gave Polar Capital Global Financials an outperform vote while only 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Polar Capital Global Financials	Outperform Votes 108 78.26%	Underperform Votes 30 21.74%
HICL Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 166 72.81%	Underperform Votes 62 27.19%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PCFT or HICL?

Polar Capital Global Financials has higher revenue and earnings than HICL Infrastructure. Polar Capital Global Financials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Global Financials	£125.99M	4.91	£115.21M	£37.58	5.40
HICL Infrastructure	£105.30M	23.15	£101.36M	£5.10	24.01

Does the media favor PCFT or HICL?

In the previous week, Polar Capital Global Financials and Polar Capital Global Financials both had 1 articles in the media. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Polar Capital Global Financials' score of 0.14 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Global Financials	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
HICL Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in PCFT or HICL?

78.0% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Polar Capital Global Financials beats HICL Infrastructure on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.