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Pershing Square (PSH) Competitors

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GBX 3,726 -16.00 (-0.43%)
As of 05/21/2025 11:53 AM Eastern

PSH vs. LGEN, SMT, ICP, SDRC, STJ, SDR, FCIT, HL, MNG, and PCT

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

Pershing Square vs.

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Legal & General Group received 1249 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Pershing SquareN/AN/A
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1249
71.86%
Underperform Votes
489
28.14%

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 1 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Pershing Square's score of -0.20 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square Neutral
Legal & General Group Positive

Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 267, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Pershing Square.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Pershing Square
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Pershing Square pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Legal & General Group pays out 387.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Pershing Square has a net margin of 75.97% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 0.67%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Pershing Square75.97% 17.71% 11.83%
Legal & General Group 0.67%7.79%0.18%

Pershing Square has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square£3.57B2.39£2.71B£953.803.91
Legal & General Group£47.90B0.30£319.08M£5.4244.62

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Legal & General Group beats Pershing Square on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PSH vs. The Competition

MetricPershing SquareAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£8.52B£1.20B£5.34B£2.68B
Dividend Yield1.39%4.41%4.18%5.05%
P/E Ratio3.9121.7612.76134.32
Price / Sales2.392,409.521,770.92203,702.46
Price / Cash0.5660.4649.7128.02
Price / Book0.541.151.343.79
Net Income£2.71B£263.32M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-0.21%0.22%0.55%0.65%
1 Month Performance10.83%18.14%11.25%22.12%
1 Year Performance-8.23%2.34%13.17%119.61%

Pershing Square Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,726
-0.4%
N/A-7.5%£8.52B£3.57B3.91N/APositive News
LGEN
Legal & General Group
2.0554 of 5 stars
GBX 239.63
0.0%
GBX 267
+11.4%
-4.2%£14.04B£47.90B44.2411,956
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
1.1582 of 5 stars
GBX 991
+0.6%
N/A+14.1%£12.12B£1.26B10.17N/A
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.391 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579News Coverage
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750Positive News
High Trading Volume
STJ
St. James's Place
1.3636 of 5 stars
GBX 1,083.79
+1.9%
GBX 812.33
-25.0%
+128.2%£5.86B£26.27B-908.372,298News Coverage
SDR
Schroders
1.5464 of 5 stars
GBX 349.60
+0.6%
GBX 404.75
+15.8%
-10.0%£5.42B£2.78B15.276,438Analyst Forecast
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,097.45
+0.4%
N/A+6.0%£5.30B£981.19M5.69N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
2.3871 of 5 stars
N/AGBX 1,055.33
+∞
N/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850Positive News
High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
0.2561 of 5 stars
GBX 216.90
-0.2%
GBX 223.33
+3.0%
+7.6%£5.17B£9.02B30.936,101
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 325.58
+1.3%
N/A-89.2%£3.84B£1.24B3.20120News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:PSH) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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