Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT) Competitors

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust (LON:SLI) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in SLI or PCT?

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

Which has better valuation & earnings, SLI or PCT?

Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust. Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital Technology Trust, 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
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust	£29.95M	10.43	N/A	£21.50	3.67
Polar Capital Technology Trust	£1.15B	3.20	£1.12B	£0.90	343.63

Do analysts rate SLI or PCT?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Polar Capital Technology Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is SLI or PCT more profitable?

Polar Capital Technology Trust has a net margin of 97.18% compared to Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 33.63% beat Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
Polar Capital Technology Trust	97.18%	33.63%	20.70%

Does the media prefer SLI or PCT?

In the previous week, Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust and Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Polar Capital Technology Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust's score of 1.13 indicating that Polar Capital Technology Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Polar Capital Technology Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SLI or PCT?

Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust received 109 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.57% of users gave Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust	Outperform Votes 192 69.57%	Underperform Votes 84 30.43%
Polar Capital Technology Trust	Outperform Votes 83 64.34%	Underperform Votes 46 35.66%

Summary

Polar Capital Technology Trust beats Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.