SSON vs. HGT, PHLL, INPP, STJ, JGGI, MNKS, ABDN, CTY, HICL, and BPT
Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust include HgCapital Trust (HGT), Petershill Partners (PHLL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), St. James's Place (STJ), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Monks (MNKS), abrdn (ABDN), City of London (CTY), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), and Bridgepoint Group (BPT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.
HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Smithson Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Smithson Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of HgCapital Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 82.75% compared to Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 8.03% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Smithson Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat HgCapital Trust's score of -0.55 indicating that Smithson Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Smithson Investment Trust on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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