PAC vs. PCGH, UEM, NESF, AAS, LIO, JEGI, POLN, CGI, ATR, and JCH
Should you be buying Pacific Assets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Assets include Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH), Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Schroders Investment Trusts - Schroder Asian Total Return Investment (ATR), and JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (LON:PCGH) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
73.7% of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.6% of Pacific Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Pacific Assets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 68.83% compared to Pacific Assets' net margin of 0.00%. Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust's return on equity of 5.60% beat Pacific Assets' return on equity.
In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 13 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Pacific Assets and 1 mentions for Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust. Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Assets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Pacific Assets received 58 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote while only 55.67% of users gave Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust an outperform vote.
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust pays out 2,222.2% 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.
Pacific Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust. Pacific Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Pacific Assets beats Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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