MNG vs. FCIT, HL, SDR, PCT, ATST, ICP, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and RCP
Should you be buying M&G stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&G include F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), 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.
F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) and M&G (LON:MNG) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
M&G has a consensus target price of GBX 222.60, suggesting a potential upside of 8.06%. Given F&C Investment Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe M&G is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
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.
49.1% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.7% of M&G shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of M&G shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, M&G has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
F&C Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
In the previous week, F&C Investment Trust and F&C Investment Trust both had 4 articles in the media. M&G's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat F&C Investment Trust's score of 0.47 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. F&C Investment Trust pays out 1,456.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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 has a net margin of 91.19% compared to F&C Investment Trust's net margin of 4.73%. M&G's return on equity of 11.00% beat F&C Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
F&C Investment Trust and M&G tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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