FCIT vs. MNG, SDR, ICP, HL, PCT, ATST, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and RCP
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), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), and RIT Capital Partners (RCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
M&G (LON:MNG) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 85.42% compared to F&C Investment Trust's net margin of 4.73%.
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 50.00% of users gave M&G an outperform vote.
In the previous week, F&C Investment Trust had 2 more articles in the media than M&G. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for F&C Investment Trust and 1 mentions for M&G. M&G's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat F&C Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
55.7% of M&G shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of M&G shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. 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 pays out 2,153.8% 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 lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
M&G presently has a consensus target price of GBX 222.60, suggesting a potential upside of 8.57%. Given F&C Investment Trust's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe M&G is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
M&G has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
M&G and F&C Investment Trust tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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