Pollen Street Group (POLN) Competitors

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (LON:TEM) and Pollen Street Group (LON:POLN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends and media sentiment.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in TEM or POLN?

71.1% of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 57.8% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is TEM or POLN a better dividend stock?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Pollen Street Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust pays out 48.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pollen Street Group pays out 77.7% 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 believe in TEM or POLN?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust received 62 more outperform votes than Pollen Street Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Pollen Street Group an outperform vote while only 55.65% of users gave Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 69 55.65%	Underperform Votes 55 44.35%
Pollen Street Group	Outperform Votes 7 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has higher valuation & earnings, TEM or POLN?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Pollen Street Group. Pollen Street Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Templeton Emerging Markets Investment 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
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust	£160.96M	11.70	£130.50M	£12.47	14.45
Pollen Street Group	£63.61M	7.50	£44.86M	£72.03	10.75

Which has more volatility and risk, TEM or POLN?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pollen Street Group has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TEM or POLN more profitable?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has a net margin of 81.07% compared to Pollen Street Group's net margin of 70.52%. Pollen Street Group's return on equity of 7.94% beat Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust	81.07%	7.07%	4.50%
Pollen Street Group	70.52%	7.94%	5.32%

Does the media refer more to TEM or POLN?

In the previous week, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Pollen Street Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Pollen Street Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate TEM or POLN?

Pollen Street Group has a consensus target price of GBX 900, indicating a potential upside of 16.28%. Given Pollen Street Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Pollen Street Group is more favorable than Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Templeton Emerging Markets 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

Summary

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust beats Pollen Street Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.