MRC vs. ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, and 3IN
Should you be buying The Mercantile Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Mercantile Investment Trust include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and The Mercantile Investment Trust (LON:MRC) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. The Mercantile Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Mercantile Investment Trust pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Mercantile Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Intermediate Capital Group and Intermediate Capital Group both had 1 articles in the media. Intermediate Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat The Mercantile Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that The Mercantile Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intermediate Capital Group received 321 more outperform votes than The Mercantile Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave The Mercantile Investment Trust an outperform vote.
The Mercantile Investment Trust has a net margin of 76.99% compared to The Mercantile Investment Trust's net margin of 56.78%. The Mercantile Investment Trust's return on equity of 20.09% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Mercantile Investment Trust has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than The Mercantile Investment Trust. The Mercantile Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intermediate Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.7% of The Mercantile Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of The Mercantile Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Intermediate Capital Group beats The Mercantile Investment Trust on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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