SMT vs. LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDR, FCIT, MNG, HL, PCT, ATST, and UKW
Should you be buying Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), 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), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LON:SMT) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 1 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Legal & General Group and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.77 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 307.80, suggesting a potential upside of 22.24%. Given Legal & General Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
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.
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.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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