Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE) Competitors

abrdn (LON:ABDN) and Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of ABDN or SLPE?

38.2% of abrdn shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend ABDN or SLPE?

abrdn currently has a consensus target price of GBX 172, indicating a potential downside of 7.38%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe abrdn is more favorable than Standard Life Private Equity Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
abrdn	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ABDN or SLPE?

abrdn has higher revenue and earnings than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. Standard Life Private Equity Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
abrdn	£1.49B	2.23	£316.36M	£17.59	10.56
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.42	N/A	£155.20	3.61

Does the media favor ABDN or SLPE?

In the previous week, abrdn had 1 more articles in the media than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn and 0 mentions for Standard Life Private Equity Trust. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Standard Life Private Equity Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
abrdn	Neutral
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ABDN or SLPE?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust received 131 more outperform votes than abrdn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave Standard Life Private Equity Trust an outperform vote while only 12.73% of users gave abrdn an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
abrdn	Outperform Votes 7 12.73%	Underperform Votes 48 87.27%
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Outperform Votes 138 69.70%	Underperform Votes 60 30.30%

Is ABDN or SLPE a better dividend stock?

abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. abrdn pays out 85.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is ABDN or SLPE more profitable?

abrdn has a net margin of 21.19% compared to Standard Life Private Equity Trust's net margin of 0.00%. abrdn's return on equity of 6.46% beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
abrdn	21.19%	6.46%	0.68%
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

abrdn beats Standard Life Private Equity Trust on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.