PSH vs. MNG, SDR, STJ, ICP, HL, ABDN, ATST, 3IN, PCT, and BUR
Should you be buying Pershing Square stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pershing Square include M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), abrdn (ABDN), Alliance Trust (ATST), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Burford Capital (BUR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Pershing Square vs.
Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and M&G (LON:MNG) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than M&G. M&G is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pershing Square, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.8% of Pershing Square shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.4% of M&G shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of M&G shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
M&G has a consensus price target of GBX 223, indicating a potential upside of 9.32%. Given M&G's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe M&G is more favorable than Pershing Square.
Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Pershing Square pays out -880.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. M&G pays out -11,111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. M&G is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, M&G had 9 more articles in the media than Pershing Square. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for M&G and 4 mentions for Pershing Square. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat M&G's score of 0.54 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 89.21% compared to M&G's net margin of 0.00%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 29.00% beat M&G's return on equity.
Pershing Square has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&G has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
M&G received 48 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
M&G beats Pershing Square on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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