HICL vs. ABDN, IIG, JGGI, MNKS, STJ, INPP, BUR, RCP, PHLL, and SSON
Should you be buying HICL Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HICL Infrastructure include abrdn (ABDN), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), Monks (MNKS), St. James's Place (STJ), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Burford Capital (BUR), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Petershill Partners (PHLL), and Smithson Investment Trust (SSON). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn (LON:ABDN) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
abrdn pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. HICL Infrastructure pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 93.30% compared to HICL Infrastructure's net margin of 0.07%. abrdn's return on equity of 2.07% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.
HICL Infrastructure received 159 more outperform votes than abrdn when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 13.21% of users gave abrdn an outperform vote.
In the previous week, abrdn had 1 more articles in the media than HICL Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for abrdn and 1 mentions for HICL Infrastructure. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat abrdn's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HICL Infrastructure has lower revenue, but higher earnings than abrdn.
39.5% of abrdn shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of abrdn shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
abrdn has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
HICL Infrastructure beats abrdn on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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