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Pershing Square (PSH) Competitors

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GBX 3,512
+42.00 (+1.21%)
(As of 11/1/2024 ET)

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

Pershing Square vs.

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

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 1.22 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

Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 2.46%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Legal & General Group2.46% 6.51% 0.18%
Pershing Square 79.14%22.66%11.83%

Legal & General Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 279, suggesting a potential upside of 26.36%. Given Legal & General Group's higher probable upside, 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)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Pershing Square
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Legal & General Group pays out 42,000.0% 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 436.4% 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 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£12.32B1.05£281M£0.054,416.00
Pershing Square£3.14B2.05£2.49B£10.54332.45

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Legal & General Group received 1245 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1245
71.80%
Underperform Votes
489
28.20%
Pershing SquareN/AN/A

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

Summary

Legal & General Group beats Pershing Square on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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£6.45B£799.81M£3.22B£1.42B
Dividend Yield1.09%13.23%4.55%11.81%
P/E Ratio332.45761.42428.981,593.32
Price / Sales2.0514,173.663,037.81219,585.34
Price / Cash0.5681.0548.8833.51
Price / Book0.541.611.372.86
Net Income£2.49B£57.80M£330.66M£134.26M
7 Day Performance-2.77%-0.52%6.09%4.48%
1 Month Performance-0.62%-1.26%-0.65%3.41%
1 Year Performance18.22%13.32%18.51%97.57%

Pershing Square Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,512
+1.2%
N/A+18.8%£6.46B£3.14B332.45N/ADividend Increase
LGEN
Legal & General Group
3.2465 of 5 stars
GBX 217.47
-1.5%
GBX 279
+28.3%
+2.7%£12.70B£12.32B4,349.3611,956Positive News
High Trading Volume
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
0.4497 of 5 stars
GBX 865.40
-0.9%
N/A+35.0%£11.94B£-712,340,000.00-1,664.23N/ANews Coverage
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.67 of 5 stars
GBX 2,146.57
+1.6%
N/A+64.6%£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579News Coverage
SDRC
Schroders
N/AGBX 2,165
-2.0%
N/A+0.0%£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
2.0309 of 5 stars
GBX 345.30
-3.5%
GBX 432
+25.1%
-6.9%£5.56B£2.93B1,438.756,438
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
1.0172 of 5 stars
GBX 1,086
-0.2%
GBX 1,048.20
-3.5%
+54.1%£5.15B£764.90M1,751.611,850High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,046
-0.2%
N/A+23.5%£5.13B£1.02B544.79N/ADividend Announcement
News Coverage
MNG
M&G
1.4899 of 5 stars
GBX 194
-1.8%
GBX 223.33
+15.1%
-2.1%£4.62B£6.21B2,771.436,101High Trading Volume
STJ
St. James's Place
1.1605 of 5 stars
GBX 818
-0.5%
GBX 784.25
-4.1%
+27.1%£4.42B£26.80B-81,800.002,298News Coverage
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 311.50
-2.4%
N/A-85.5%£3.71B£1.15B342.31120Positive News
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:PSH) was last updated on 11/1/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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