Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT) Competitors

GBX 169
+1.00 (+0.60%)
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PCFT vs. CHRY, CORD, IPO, FSFL, GROW, FSG, NAS, CGI, JEGI, and LIO

Should you be buying Polar Capital Global Financials stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Global Financials include Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), IP Group (IPO), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Molten Ventures (GROW), Foresight Group (FSG), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Canadian General Investments (CGI), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), and Liontrust Asset Management (LIO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Polar Capital Global Financials vs.

Polar Capital Global Financials (LON:PCFT) and Chrysalis Investments (LON:CHRY) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.

In the previous week, Chrysalis Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Global Financials. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Chrysalis Investments and 0 mentions for Polar Capital Global Financials. Chrysalis Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Polar Capital Global Financials' score of 0.00 indicating that Chrysalis Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Global Financials Neutral
Chrysalis Investments Positive

Polar Capital Global Financials received 105 more outperform votes than Chrysalis Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Chrysalis Investments an outperform vote while only 78.26% of users gave Polar Capital Global Financials an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Polar Capital Global FinancialsOutperform Votes
108
78.26%
Underperform Votes
30
21.74%
Chrysalis InvestmentsOutperform Votes
3
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

Chrysalis Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Polar Capital Global Financials. Polar Capital Global Financials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chrysalis Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Global Financials-£6.16M-83.59-£15.53M-£0.05-3,380.00
Chrysalis InvestmentsN/AN/AN/A-£0.86-104.19

Chrysalis Investments' return on equity of 0.00% beat Polar Capital Global Financials' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Polar Capital Global FinancialsN/A -3.02% -1.12%
Chrysalis Investments N/A N/A N/A

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Polar Capital Global Financials
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Chrysalis Investments
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

82.6% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.1% of Chrysalis Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Chrysalis Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Chrysalis Investments beats Polar Capital Global Financials on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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PCFT vs. The Competition

MetricPolar Capital Global FinancialsAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£514.93M£822.29M£3.15B£1.64B
Dividend Yield2.77%6.23%4.52%8.45%
P/E Ratio-3,380.00949.23447.731,894.00
Price / Sales-83.5914,439.622,109.35395,075.66
Price / Cash14.2988.8750.2134.00
Price / Book1.071.301.502.67
Net Income-£15.53M£53.56M£339.54M£177.53M
7 Day Performance2.42%1.01%0.91%1.25%
1 Month Performance3.81%1.98%7.82%7.78%
1 Year Performance24.63%5.09%13.74%10.32%

Polar Capital Global Financials Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CHRY
Chrysalis Investments
0 of 5 stars
GBX 85.10
+1.3%
N/A+33.8%£506.47MN/A-98.95N/A
CORD
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
0 of 5 stars
GBX 65.40
+2.2%
N/A-23.9%£501.15M£73.54M726.67N/A
IPO
IP Group
2.0362 of 5 stars
GBX 50.10
-0.2%
GBX 126
+151.5%
-5.1%£516.03M£-154,600,000.00-294.71101News Coverage
FSFL
Foresight Solar
0 of 5 stars
GBX 90.10
-0.4%
N/A-19.0%£519.91M£28.20M-4,505.00N/ADividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
GROW
Molten Ventures
0 of 5 stars
GBX 284.50
-0.4%
N/A+18.1%£492.64M£-126,400,000.00-273.5658Positive News
Gap Up
FSG
Foresight Group
0 of 5 stars
GBX 456
-0.4%
GBX 560
+22.8%
+7.5%£529.10M£136.28M2,171.43314Dividend Cut
NAS
North Atlantic Smaller Cos
0 of 5 stars
GBX 4,130
+2.0%
N/A+17.0%£554.66M£4.14M-9,833.33N/A
CGI
Canadian General Investments
0 of 5 stars
GBX 2,200
flat
N/A+11.8%£458.92M£200.35M451.75N/A
JEGI
JPMorgan European Growth & Income
0 of 5 stars
GBX 106.50
+2.4%
N/A+12.1%£457.60M£83.63M591.67N/A
LIO
Liontrust Asset Management
0.5528 of 5 stars
GBX 717
+3.3%
GBX 755
+5.3%
-10.4%£457.37M£231.10M2,655.56241Insider Buying

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