Free Trial

Pollen Street Group (POLN) Competitors

Pollen Street Group logo
GBX 780 -10.00 (-1.27%)
As of 07/4/2025

POLN vs. SSON, MRC, JAM, BHMG, RAT, FEV, MYI, PNL, WWH, and ATT

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), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), JPMorgan American (JAM), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), Rathbones Group (RAT), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Murray International (MYI), Personal Assets (PNL), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), and Allianz Technology Trust (ATT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Pollen Street Group vs. Its Competitors

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

30.6% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 57.8% of Pollen Street Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company 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.

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
Pollen Street Group70.52% 7.94% 5.32%
Smithson Investment Trust 317.04%-2.13%N/A

Pollen Street Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 900, indicating a potential upside of 15.38%. Given Pollen Street Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible 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
Pollen Street Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Smithson Investment Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, Smithson Investment Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Pollen Street Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Pollen Street Group. Smithson Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Pollen Street Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Smithson Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pollen Street Group Neutral
Smithson Investment Trust Positive

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
Pollen Street Group£63.61M7.56£44.86M£72.0310.83
Smithson Investment Trust-£13.48M-144.72-£42.74M-£33.47-45.59

Summary

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

Get Pollen Street Group News Delivered to You Automatically

Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for POLN and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding POLN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip Chart

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.
Skip Chart

POLN vs. The Competition

MetricPollen Street GroupAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£480.71M£1.25B£6.37B£2.96B
Dividend Yield3.45%4.36%4.17%5.02%
P/E Ratio10.8321.8113.47147.88
Price / Sales7.562,406.261,784.55258,917.23
Price / CashN/A60.8148.8327.97
Price / Book0.851.211.404.61
Net Income£44.86M£264.68M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.76%0.37%0.56%1.04%
1 Month Performance0.26%2.71%3.26%5.12%
1 Year Performance6.56%6.53%15.53%80.81%

Pollen Street Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
POLN
Pollen Street Group
N/AGBX 780
-1.3%
GBX 900
+15.4%
+7.6%£480.71M£63.61M10.8384
SSON
Smithson Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,482
-0.3%
N/A+9.9%£1.89B-£13.48M-44.27N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MRC
The Mercantile Investment Trust
N/AGBX 252.90
-0.4%
N/A+5.9%£1.88B£415.73M4.752,800
JAM
JPMorgan American
N/AGBX 1,010
+0.8%
N/A+4.0%£1.83B£431.16M4.38N/A
BHMG
BH Macro GBP
N/AGBX 387.50
-1.3%
N/A+7.9%£1.79B£35.67M41.85N/A
RAT
Rathbones Group
1.6452 of 5 stars
GBX 1,718
-1.4%
GBX 2,087
+21.5%
-0.2%£1.79B£874.75M27.963,500News Coverage
Gap Down
FEV
Fidelity European Trust
N/AGBX 398.50
flat
N/A+2.9%£1.64B£221.98M7.90N/A
MYI
Murray International
N/AGBX 274
+0.4%
N/A+9.6%£1.63B£198.15M9.11N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
PNL
Personal Assets
N/AGBX 509
-0.2%
N/A+5.3%£1.62B£107.31M12.97N/APositive News
WWH
Worldwide Healthcare
N/AGBX 299.75
+0.9%
N/A-15.0%£1.59B£245.62M6.98N/A
ATT
Allianz Technology Trust
N/AGBX 418.50
+1.6%
N/A+7.7%£1.59B£511.77M3.16N/APositive News

Related Companies and Tools


This page (LON:POLN) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
From Our Partners