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Pershing Square (PSH) Competitors

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GBX 4,168 +68.00 (+1.66%)
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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

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

Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 268.33, indicating a potential upside of 5.19%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. 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.

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

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%

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 4 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for Pershing Square. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Legal & General Group
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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£3.57B2.67£2.71B£953.804.37
Legal & General Group£47.90B0.31£319.08M£5.4247.09

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

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£9.53B£1.29B£6.31B£3.01B
Dividend Yield1.39%4.40%4.20%5.02%
P/E Ratio4.3722.2614.01165.11
Price / Sales2.672,376.401,746.89295,837.05
Price / Cash0.5660.71128.4827.97
Price / Book0.611.221.964.52
Net Income£2.71B£263.65M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day PerformanceN/A-0.07%4.14%6.43%
1 Month Performance7.64%2.93%7.84%13.19%
1 Year Performance0.19%5.57%19.34%68.35%

Pershing Square Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,168
+1.7%
N/A-1.9%£9.53B£3.57B4.37N/A
LGEN
Legal & General Group
1.5136 of 5 stars
GBX 253.20
-0.7%
GBX 268.33
+6.0%
+10.0%£14.84B£47.90B46.7411,956Positive News
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
0.6748 of 5 stars
GBX 1,053
+0.3%
N/A+17.6%£12.88B£1.26B10.80N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
0.9681 of 5 stars
GBX 1,209
-1.5%
GBX 1,295
+7.1%
+111.3%£6.54B£26.27B-1,013.312,298News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
MNG
M&G
0.5695 of 5 stars
GBX 258.20
-0.4%
GBX 223.33
-13.5%
+24.4%£6.15B£9.02B36.826,101Analyst Forecast
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.5493 of 5 stars
GBX 389
+0.4%
GBX 386.25
-0.7%
+2.7%£6.04B£2.78B16.996,438
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,139
+0.2%
N/A+8.0%£5.51B£981.19M5.90N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.6941 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 380
+1.2%
N/A-88.9%£4.48B£1.24B3.73120Positive News
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This page (LON:PSH) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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