STJ vs. SSON, HGT, PHLL, INPP, CTY, MNKS, ABDN, JGGI, WWH, and HICL
Should you be buying St. James's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. James's Place include Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), HgCapital Trust (HGT), Petershill Partners (PHLL), International Public Partnerships (INPP), City of London (CTY), Monks (MNKS), abrdn (ABDN), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) and St. James's Place (LON:STJ) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings and profitability.
St. James's Place has a consensus target price of GBX 646.75, suggesting a potential upside of 45.60%. Given Smithson Investment Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Smithson Investment Trust.
Smithson Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than St. James's Place. St. James's Place 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.
In the previous week, St. James's Place had 5 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for St. James's Place and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Smithson Investment Trust's score of -0.02 indicating that Smithson Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.8% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of St. James's Place 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.
Smithson Investment Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Smithson Investment Trust's net margin of -0.05%. St. James' Place's return on equity of 0.00% beat Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity.
St. James's Place received 738 more outperform votes than Smithson Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
St. James's Place beats Smithson Investment Trust on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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