LGEN vs. III, SMT, PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, and PCT
Should you be buying Legal & General Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legal & General Group include 3i Group (III), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
3i Group (LON:III) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. 3i Group pays out 1,217.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
3i Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 2,800, indicating a potential downside of 4.31%. Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 301, indicating a potential upside of 20.84%. Given 3i Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than 3i Group.
In the previous week, 3i Group had 1 more articles in the media than Legal & General Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for 3i Group and 6 mentions for Legal & General Group. 3i Group's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.18 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3i Group has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
3i Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Legal & General Group. 3i Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3i Group has a net margin of 95.86% compared to 3i Group's net margin of 3.81%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 27.62% beat 3i Group's return on equity.
56.8% of 3i Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.4% of 3i Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Legal & General Group received 822 more outperform votes than 3i Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 70.59% of users gave 3i Group an outperform vote.
Summary
3i Group beats Legal & General Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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