LIO vs. PAC, POLN, UEM, PCGH, AAS, NESF, ATR, DIG, JEGI, and ORIT
Should you be buying Liontrust Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liontrust Asset Management include Pacific Assets (PAC), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM), Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), Schroders Investment Trusts - Schroder Asian Total Return Investment (ATR), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), and Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Liontrust Asset Management (LON:LIO) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, valuation and profitability.
Pacific Assets has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Liontrust Asset Management. Pacific Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Liontrust Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Liontrust Asset Management has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 68.83% compared to Liontrust Asset Management's net margin of 7.45%. Liontrust Asset Management's return on equity of 8.84% beat Pacific Assets' return on equity.
Liontrust Asset Management currently has a consensus target price of GBX 755, suggesting a potential upside of 8.79%. Given Liontrust Asset Management's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Liontrust Asset Management is more favorable than Pacific Assets.
Liontrust Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 72 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Liontrust Asset Management pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Assets pays out 952.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Liontrust Asset Management received 296 more outperform votes than Pacific Assets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.42% of users gave Liontrust Asset Management an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 11 more articles in the media than Liontrust Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Pacific Assets and 2 mentions for Liontrust Asset Management. Liontrust Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.42 indicating that Liontrust Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.2% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Liontrust Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Liontrust Asset Management beats Pacific Assets on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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