ICGT vs. MRCH, GSCT, SYNC, BBH, SDP, TFIF, NBPE, APEO, JFJ, and TMPL
Should you be buying ICG Enterprise Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ICG Enterprise Trust include Merchants Trust (MRCH), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Syncona (SYNC), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), and Temple Bar (TMPL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and Merchants Trust (LON:MRCH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Merchants Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
ICG Enterprise Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Merchants Trust. Merchants Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Merchants Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 4,776.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Merchants Trust pays out -13,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Merchants Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Merchants Trust has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a net margin of 64.07% compared to Merchants Trust's net margin of 0.00%. ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity of 3.56% beat Merchants Trust's return on equity.
19.1% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.4% of Merchants Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Merchants Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Trust received 39 more outperform votes than ICG Enterprise Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave ICG Enterprise Trust an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Merchants Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
ICG Enterprise Trust beats Merchants Trust on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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