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Personal Assets (PNL) Competitors

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GBX 513.27 -0.73 (-0.14%)
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PNL vs. STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, ATST, and ABDN

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

Personal Assets vs. Its Competitors

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) and St. James's Place (LON:STJ) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and valuation.

46.0% of Personal Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Personal Assets has higher earnings, but lower revenue than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Personal Assets£107.31M15.25£124.81M£39.2313.08
St. James's Place£26.27B0.24-£6.46M-£1.19-975.60

Personal Assets has a net margin of 116.31% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 7.96% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Personal Assets116.31% 7.96% 1.96%
St. James's Place -0.02%-0.63%0.22%

In the previous week, Personal Assets had 2 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Personal Assets and 1 mentions for St. James's Place. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.00 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Personal Assets
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
St. James's Place
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

St. James's Place has a consensus price target of GBX 1,295, indicating a potential upside of 11.25%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Personal Assets.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Personal Assets
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
St. James's Place
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Personal Assets pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. St. James's Place pays out -1,173.4% 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. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Personal Assets beats St. James's Place on 10 of the 18 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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PNL vs. The Competition

MetricPersonal AssetsAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.64B£1.31B£6.45B£3.06B
Dividend Yield1.41%4.38%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio13.0822.4613.98162.18
Price / Sales15.252,369.521,741.08272,840.75
Price / Cash37.4660.71128.7027.97
Price / Book1.061.221.964.70
Net Income£124.81M£264.35M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance0.64%0.01%0.46%0.17%
1 Month Performance0.84%2.07%3.66%7.75%
1 Year Performance6.16%7.06%23.68%73.04%

Personal Assets Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PNL
Personal Assets
N/AGBX 513.27
-0.1%
N/A+6.1%£1.64B£107.31M13.08N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
1.3205 of 5 stars
GBX 1,198.50
-0.9%
GBX 1,295
+8.1%
+110.3%£6.48B£26.27B-1,004.512,298
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
MNG
M&G
0.8038 of 5 stars
GBX 257.60
-0.2%
GBX 223.33
-13.3%
+28.4%£6.14B£9.02B36.736,101Analyst Forecast
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.0696 of 5 stars
GBX 389.96
+0.2%
GBX 386.25
-1.0%
+7.6%£6.05B£2.78B17.036,438
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,136
-0.3%
N/A+12.1%£5.49B£981.19M5.89N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
1.4725 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 379.52
-0.1%
N/A-87.6%£4.47B£1.24B3.73120Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
ABDN
abrdn
0.7695 of 5 stars
GBX 193.30
-0.4%
GBX 184.33
-4.6%
+25.2%£3.46B£1.49B10.994,719

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This page (LON:PNL) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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