SYNC vs. UKW, 3IN, STJ, ABDN, EMG, RCP, JGGI, HICL, MNKS, and TRIG
Should you be buying Syncona stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Syncona include Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), St. James's Place (STJ), abrdn (ABDN), Man Group (EMG), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), Monks (MNKS), and The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Syncona (LON:SYNC) and Greencoat UK Wind (LON:UKW) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Greencoat UK Wind received 84 more outperform votes than Syncona when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.28% of users gave Greencoat UK Wind an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Syncona an outperform vote.
Syncona has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greencoat UK Wind has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Greencoat UK Wind had 4 more articles in the media than Syncona. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Greencoat UK Wind and 1 mentions for Syncona. Greencoat UK Wind's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Syncona's score of 0.00 indicating that Greencoat UK Wind is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.9% of Syncona shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.4% of Greencoat UK Wind shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Syncona shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Greencoat UK Wind shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Greencoat UK Wind has higher revenue and earnings than Syncona. Syncona is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greencoat UK Wind, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Syncona pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Greencoat UK Wind pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. Syncona pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greencoat UK Wind pays out 2,381.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Greencoat UK Wind has a net margin of 53.84% compared to Syncona's net margin of 0.00%. Greencoat UK Wind's return on equity of 3.29% beat Syncona's return on equity.
Syncona presently has a consensus target price of GBX 230, suggesting a potential upside of 85.48%. Given Syncona's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Syncona is more favorable than Greencoat UK Wind.
Summary
Greencoat UK Wind beats Syncona on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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