Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE) Competitors

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

Is SLPE or ABDN a better dividend stock?

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 an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in SLPE or ABDN?

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

Is SLPE or ABDN 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
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
abrdn	21.19%	6.46%	0.68%

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, SLPE or ABDN?

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
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.39	N/A	£155.20	3.58
abrdn	£1.49B	2.29	£316.36M	£17.59	10.85

Does the media favor SLPE or ABDN?

In the previous week, abrdn had 2 more articles in the media than Standard Life Private Equity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for abrdn and 0 mentions for Standard Life Private Equity Trust. abrdn's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Neutral
abrdn	Positive

Do analysts rate SLPE or ABDN?

abrdn has a consensus price target of GBX 172, suggesting a potential downside of 9.85%. Given abrdn's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe abrdn is more favorable than Standard Life Private Equity Trust.

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

Summary

abrdn beats Standard Life Private Equity Trust on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.