ATST vs. PCT, HL, 3IN, EMG, RCP, BUR, IIG, ABDN, MNKS, and HICL
Should you be buying Alliance Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alliance Trust include Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Burford Capital (BUR), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), abrdn (ABDN), Monks (MNKS), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) and Polar Capital Technology Trust (LON:PCT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
7.7% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Alliance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Polar Capital Technology Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Alliance Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Technology Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Alliance Trust and 0 mentions for Polar Capital Technology Trust. Alliance Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Polar Capital Technology Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Alliance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alliance Trust received 27 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Technology Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 64.34% of users gave Polar Capital Technology Trust an outperform vote.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 95.33% compared to Polar Capital Technology Trust's net margin of 94.25%. Polar Capital Technology Trust's return on equity of 17.53% beat Alliance Trust's return on equity.
Polar Capital Technology Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Alliance Trust. Polar Capital Technology Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital Technology Trust has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alliance Trust beats Polar Capital Technology Trust on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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