PCGH vs. PAC, UEM, NESF, LIO, JEGI, AAS, CGI, POLN, ATR, and JCH
Should you be buying Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust include Pacific Assets (PAC), Utilico Emerging Markets (UEM), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Pollen Street Group (POLN), 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 compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
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.
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. Pacific Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Assets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
73.7% of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 68.83% compared to Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 5.60% beat Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust's return on equity.
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 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.
Summary
Pacific Assets beats Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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