PHI vs. IPX, JLEN, EOT, HSL, USA, BUT, BRGE, EWI, THRG, and FEML
Should you be buying Pacific Horizon Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust include Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Brunner (BUT), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), and Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (LON:PHI) and Impax Asset Management Group (LON:IPX) 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 media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.
Impax Asset Management Group has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Impax Asset Management Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Impax Asset Management Group has a net margin of 21.99% compared to Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Impax Asset Management Group's return on equity of 28.82% beat Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's return on equity.
Pacific Horizon Investment Trust has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Impax Asset Management Group has a beta of 1.51, meaning that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.
21.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.7% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.5% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are held 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 Horizon Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Impax Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Pacific Horizon Investment Trust pays out -526.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Impax Asset Management Group pays out 9,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Impax Asset Management Group has a consensus target price of GBX 700, suggesting a potential upside of 39.72%. Given Impax Asset Management Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Impax Asset Management Group is more favorable than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust.
Impax Asset Management Group received 125 more outperform votes than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.60% of users gave Impax Asset Management Group an outperform vote while only 65.81% of users gave Pacific Horizon Investment Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Impax Asset Management Group had 1 more articles in the media than Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Impax Asset Management Group and 0 mentions for Pacific Horizon Investment Trust. Impax Asset Management Group's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Pacific Horizon Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Impax Asset Management Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Impax Asset Management Group beats Pacific Horizon Investment Trust on 18 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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