MNKS vs. HICL, STJ, TRIG, INPP, JGGI, ABDN, PHLL, SSON, BUR, and HGT
Should you be buying Monks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monks include HICL Infrastructure (HICL), St. James's Place (STJ), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), International Public Partnerships (INPP), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), abrdn (ABDN), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), Burford Capital (BUR), and HgCapital Trust (HGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Monks (LON:MNKS) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
HICL Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Monks. HICL Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HICL Infrastructure received 80 more outperform votes than Monks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Monks an outperform vote.
19.4% of Monks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.6% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of Monks shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Monks has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Monks had 30 more articles in the media than HICL Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Monks and 1 mentions for HICL Infrastructure. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Monks' score of -0.09 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 93.30% compared to Monks' net margin of -3.97%. HICL Infrastructure's return on equity of 2.07% beat Monks' return on equity.
Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Monks pays out 30,000.0% 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 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
HICL Infrastructure beats Monks on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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