FCIT vs. MNG, HL, SDR, ICP, PCT, ATST, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and PSH
Should you be buying F&C Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&C Investment Trust include M&G (MNG), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), and Pershing Square (PSH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) and M&G (LON:MNG) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
M&G received 38 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 49.04% of users gave M&G an outperform vote.
M&G has a consensus price target of GBX 224.17, suggesting a potential upside of 11.36%. Given M&G's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe M&G is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
49.1% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of M&G shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of M&G shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, M&G had 4 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for M&G and 0 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. M&G's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat F&C Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that M&G is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. F&C Investment Trust pays out 1,456.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. M&G pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 91.19% compared to M&G's net margin of 4.73%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 11.00% beat M&G's return on equity.
F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&G has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F&C Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than M&G. F&C Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&G, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
M&G beats F&C Investment Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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