PNL vs. FEV, TEM, MRC, PIN, JAM, HVPE, WTAN, MYI, CLDN, and RAT
Should you be buying Personal Assets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Personal Assets include Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), Pantheon International (PIN), JPMorgan American (JAM), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Murray International (MYI), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), and Rathbones Group (RAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fidelity European Trust (LON:FEV) and Personal Assets (LON:PNL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation and community ranking.
69.2% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.2% of Personal Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Personal Assets shares are held by 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.
Fidelity European Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity European Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Personal Assets. Fidelity European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelity European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Fidelity European Trust pays out 1,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Personal Assets pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity European Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fidelity European Trust has a net margin of 90.56% compared to Fidelity European Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 16.08% beat Fidelity European Trust's return on equity.
Personal Assets received 46 more outperform votes than Fidelity European Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.26% of users gave Fidelity European Trust an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Personal Assets had 4 more articles in the media than Fidelity European Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Personal Assets and 2 mentions for Fidelity European Trust. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Fidelity European Trust's score of -0.51 indicating that Fidelity European Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fidelity European Trust beats Personal Assets on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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