SSON vs. PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, MNG, FCIT, STJ, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust include Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), St. James's Place (STJ), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) and Pershing Square (LON:PSH) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Pershing Square had 2 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Pershing Square and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Smithson Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Pershing Square is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pershing Square has a net margin of 79.14% compared to Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 22.66% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.
Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Smithson Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Smithson Investment Trust and Pershing Square both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Pershing Square beats Smithson Investment Trust on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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