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Pershing Square (PSH) Competitors

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GBX 4,050 -22.00 (-0.54%)
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PSH vs. LGEN, SMT, STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, FCIT, HL, 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), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Pershing Square vs. Its Competitors

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

Legal & General Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 268.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.74%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Pershing Square.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Pershing Square
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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
Legal & General Group0.67% 7.79% 0.18%
Pershing Square 75.97%17.71%11.83%

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

Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 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 pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 22 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for Pershing Square. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Legal & General Group Positive
Pershing Square Neutral

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

Pershing Square has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
Legal & General Group£47.90B0.31£319.08M£5.4247.30
Pershing Square£3.57B2.59£2.71B£953.804.25

Summary

Legal & General Group beats Pershing Square on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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PSH vs. The Competition

MetricPershing SquareAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£9.26B£1.31B£6.34B£3.07B
Dividend Yield1.39%4.39%4.18%5.02%
P/E Ratio4.2522.4014.16167.80
Price / Sales2.592,511.491,818.93340,578.77
Price / Cash0.5660.70127.2627.97
Price / Book0.591.452.264.55
Net Income£2.71B£265.04M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-3.43%0.28%0.55%0.74%
1 Month Performance-2.17%14.75%9.21%11.47%
1 Year Performance16.11%8.79%23.10%69.41%

Pershing Square Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,050
-0.5%
N/A+16.4%£9.26B£3.57B4.25N/A
LGEN
Legal & General Group
1.8957 of 5 stars
GBX 255.95
+0.2%
GBX 268.33
+4.8%
+21.6%£15.00B£47.90B47.2511,956News Coverage
Earnings Report
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
1.1615 of 5 stars
GBX 1,083.46
+0.0%
N/A+40.6%£13.25B£1.26B11.12N/ANews Coverage
STJ
St. James's Place
1.0403 of 5 stars
GBX 1,161
-0.4%
GBX 1,408.75
+21.3%
+94.7%£6.28B£26.27B-973.082,298Earnings Report
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
MNG
M&G
0.9581 of 5 stars
GBX 257.96
+0.2%
GBX 251
-2.7%
+34.2%£6.14B£9.02B36.786,101News Coverage
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.3981 of 5 stars
GBX 389.40
-1.5%
GBX 386.25
-0.8%
+15.6%£6.04B£2.78B17.016,438News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,166
+0.6%
N/A+16.2%£5.64B£981.19M6.04N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
1.136 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850Positive News
High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 392.50
+0.6%
N/A-86.1%£4.63B£1.24B3.85120News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:PSH) was last updated on 8/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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