SYNC vs. MRCH, GSCT, ICGT, SDP, BBH, TFIF, APEO, NBPE, JFJ, and SAIN
Should you be buying Syncona stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Syncona include Merchants Trust (MRCH), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), and Scottish American (SAIN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Merchants Trust (LON:MRCH) and Syncona (LON:SYNC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, risk and media sentiment.
Syncona has a consensus price target of GBX 230, indicating a potential upside of 88.52%. Given Merchants Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Syncona is more favorable than Merchants Trust.
5.4% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of Syncona shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Syncona shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock 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 4.9%. Syncona pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Merchants Trust pays out -13,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Syncona pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Merchants Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Syncona's return on equity of -3.78% beat Merchants Trust's return on equity.
Syncona received 16 more outperform votes than Merchants Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.88% of users gave Syncona an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Merchants Trust an outperform vote.
Merchants Trust has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Syncona has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Syncona had 1 more articles in the media than Merchants Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Syncona and 1 mentions for Merchants Trust. Merchants Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Syncona's score of 0.00 indicating that Syncona is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Merchants Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Syncona. Merchants Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Syncona, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Merchants Trust and Syncona tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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