MRCH vs. ICGT, GSCT, SYNC, BBH, SDP, TFIF, NBPE, APEO, JFJ, and TMPL
Should you be buying Merchants Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Merchants Trust include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), 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.
Merchants Trust (LON:MRCH) and ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.
In the previous week, Merchants Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ICG Enterprise Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Merchants Trust has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a net margin of 64.07% compared to Merchants Trust's net margin of 62.42%. ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity of 3.56% beat Merchants Trust's return on equity.
ICG Enterprise Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Merchants Trust. ICG Enterprise Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merchants Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.0% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Merchants Trust pays out 21,538.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.
Summary
ICG Enterprise Trust beats Merchants Trust on 9 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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