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F&C Investment Trust (FCIT) Competitors

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GBX 1,152 -2.00 (-0.17%)
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FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, HL, and PCT

Should you be buying F&C Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&C Investment Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

F&C Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors

Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Legal & General Group pays out 387.7% 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 pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legal & General Group. F&C 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Legal & General Group£47.90B0.31£319.08M£5.4247.32
F&C Investment Trust£981.19M5.68£935.32M£192.965.97

47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.0% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 95.33% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 0.67%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 18.50% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Legal & General Group0.67% 7.79% 0.18%
F&C Investment Trust 95.33%18.50%10.80%

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 18 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Legal & General Group and 4 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Legal & General Group's score of 1.31 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Legal & General Group
10 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
F&C Investment Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Legal & General Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 268.33, indicating a potential upside of 4.70%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
F&C Investment Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Summary

Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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FCIT vs. The Competition

MetricF&C Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£5.57B£1.29B£6.36B£3.07B
Dividend Yield1.28%4.41%4.19%5.03%
P/E Ratio5.9722.4314.15166.65
Price / Sales5.682,521.931,822.75315,722.17
Price / Cash13.4460.70127.2427.96
Price / Book1.051.432.244.50
Net Income£935.32M£265.04M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-0.52%0.58%0.98%1.35%
1 Month Performance3.04%0.77%2.25%3.69%
1 Year Performance12.28%8.06%26.69%56.84%

F&C Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,152
-0.2%
N/A+12.9%£5.57B£981.19M5.97N/AEarnings Report
Dividend Announcement
LGEN
Legal & General Group
1.8545 of 5 stars
GBX 255.95
+0.2%
GBX 268.33
+4.8%
+16.1%£15.00B£47.90B47.2511,956Earnings Report
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
1.1632 of 5 stars
GBX 1,083.46
+0.0%
N/A+30.6%£13.25B£1.26B11.12N/ANews Coverage
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 4,125.36
-0.9%
N/A+10.7%£9.44B£3.57B4.33N/A
STJ
St. James's Place
1.6785 of 5 stars
GBX 1,161
-0.4%
GBX 1,408.75
+21.3%
+89.4%£6.28B£26.27B-973.082,298Analyst Forecast
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
MNG
M&G
0.9456 of 5 stars
GBX 257.96
+0.2%
GBX 251
-2.7%
+28.9%£6.14B£9.02B36.786,101
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.4993 of 5 stars
GBX 389.40
-1.5%
GBX 386.25
-0.8%
+15.2%£6.04B£2.78B17.016,438Analyst Forecast
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.7974 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850Positive News
High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 392.50
+0.6%
N/A-86.3%£4.63B£1.24B3.85120News Coverage
Positive News

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