SSON vs. HGT, PHLL, CTY, INPP, TRIG, HICL, MNKS, STJ, CLDN, and WWH
Should you be buying Smithson Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Smithson Investment Trust include HgCapital Trust (HGT), Petershill Partners (PHLL), City of London (CTY), International Public Partnerships (INPP), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), Monks (MNKS), St. James's Place (STJ), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), and Worldwide Healthcare (WWH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) and Smithson Investment Trust (LON:SSON) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings and risk.
40.8% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Smithson Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Smithson Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 0 mentions for Smithson Investment Trust. Smithson Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat HgCapital Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
HgCapital Trust has a net margin of 90.06% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Smithson Investment Trust's return on equity of 10.52% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.
HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Smithson Investment Trust. Smithson Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Smithson Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
HgCapital Trust beats Smithson Investment Trust on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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