LGEN vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, FCIT, MNG, HL, PCT, AV, and AIBG
Should you be buying Legal & General Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legal & General Group include Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Aviva (AV), and AIB Group (AIBG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LON:SMT) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings.
Legal & General Group has a net margin of 3.81% compared to Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 8.59% beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
48.6% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 307.80, indicating a potential upside of 27.77%. Given Legal & General Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust 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.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. 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. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 7 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.75 indicating that Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Legal & General Group received 1106 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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