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Pollen Street Group (POLN) Competitors

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GBX 796 -4.00 (-0.50%)
As of 07/25/2025 12:31 PM Eastern

POLN vs. SSON, CLDN, JAM, MRC, BHMG, N91, MYI, FEV, ATT, and WWH

Should you be buying Pollen Street Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pollen Street Group include Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), JPMorgan American (JAM), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), Ninety One Group (N91), Murray International (MYI), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), and Worldwide Healthcare (WWH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Pollen Street Group vs. Its Competitors

Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) and Pollen Street Group (LON:POLN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and dividends.

Pollen Street Group has a consensus price target of GBX 900, suggesting a potential upside of 13.07%. Given Pollen Street Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pollen Street Group is more favorable than Smithson Investment Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Smithson Investment Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Pollen Street Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Pollen Street Group has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Smithson Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pollen Street Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Smithson Investment Trust-£13.48M-147.47-£42.74M-£33.47-46.46
Pollen Street Group£63.61M7.71£44.86M£72.0311.05

Smithson Investment Trust has a net margin of 317.04% compared to Pollen Street Group's net margin of 70.52%. Pollen Street Group's return on equity of 7.94% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Smithson Investment Trust317.04% -2.13% N/A
Pollen Street Group 70.52%7.94%5.32%

In the previous week, Smithson Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Pollen Street Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Pollen Street Group. Smithson Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Pollen Street Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Smithson Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Smithson Investment Trust Very Positive
Pollen Street Group Neutral

Summary

Pollen Street Group beats Smithson Investment Trust on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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POLN vs. The Competition

MetricPollen Street GroupAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£490.57M£1.31B£6.42B£3.02B
Dividend Yield3.45%4.38%4.18%5.02%
P/E Ratio11.0522.5114.06160.65
Price / Sales7.712,365.201,731.65278,114.27
Price / CashN/A60.71128.3827.97
Price / Book0.871.231.964.70
Net Income£44.86M£264.35M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-3.63%0.05%0.45%0.40%
1 Month Performance0.25%1.38%2.74%7.19%
1 Year Performance10.56%6.40%23.55%70.37%

Pollen Street Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
POLN
Pollen Street Group
N/AGBX 796
-0.5%
GBX 900
+13.1%
+10.6%£490.57M£63.61M11.0584High Trading Volume
SSON
Smithson Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,534
+0.4%
N/A+8.3%£1.96B-£13.48M-45.83N/ANews Coverage
CLDN
Caledonia Investments
N/AGBX 3,605
+0.1%
N/A-89.9%£1.92B£231.70M9.6374News Coverage
Insider Trade
JAM
JPMorgan American
N/AGBX 1,044
+0.2%
N/A+6.4%£1.89B£431.16M4.52N/A
MRC
The Mercantile Investment Trust
N/AGBX 254
+0.8%
N/A+0.2%£1.89B£415.73M4.782,800Positive News
BHMG
BH Macro GBP
N/AGBX 396.50
flat
N/A+3.3%£1.83B£35.67M42.82N/A
N91
Ninety One Group
1.1373 of 5 stars
GBX 195
+0.4%
GBX 190
-2.6%
+11.9%£1.73B£586.81M11.231,180
MYI
Murray International
N/AGBX 283.50
+0.4%
N/A+11.7%£1.69B£198.15M9.43N/ADividend Announcement
FEV
Fidelity European Trust
N/AGBX 408
+1.1%
N/A+3.5%£1.68B£221.98M8.09N/A
ATT
Allianz Technology Trust
N/AGBX 441
-0.5%
N/A+26.0%£1.68B£511.77M3.33N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
WWH
Worldwide Healthcare
N/AGBX 309
+0.5%
N/A-15.2%£1.64B£245.62M7.19N/APositive News

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This page (LON:POLN) was last updated on 7/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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