BPM vs. ICGT, OCI, APAX, MUT, JEO, TFIF, APEO, SDP, RICA, and SLPE
Should you be buying B.P. Marsh & Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B.P. Marsh & Partners include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Murray Income Trust (MUT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Ruffer Investment (RICA), and Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
B.P. Marsh & Partners vs. Its Competitors
ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and B.P. Marsh & Partners (LON:BPM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and profitability.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, B.P. Marsh & Partners has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
18.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of B.P. Marsh & Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of B.P. Marsh & Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust had 1 more articles in the media than B.P. Marsh & Partners. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ICG Enterprise Trust and 0 mentions for B.P. Marsh & Partners. ICG Enterprise Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat B.P. Marsh & Partners' score of 0.75 indicating that ICG Enterprise Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
B.P. Marsh & Partners has higher revenue and earnings than ICG Enterprise Trust. B.P. Marsh & Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
B.P. Marsh & Partners has a net margin of 577.55% compared to ICG Enterprise Trust's net margin of 58.54%. B.P. Marsh & Partners' return on equity of 22.24% beat ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity.
ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. B.P. Marsh & Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. B.P. Marsh & Partners pays out 0.1% 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. B.P. Marsh & Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
B.P. Marsh & Partners beats ICG Enterprise Trust on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:BPM) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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