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F&C Investment Trust (FCIT) Competitors

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GBX 1,087.53 -6.47 (-0.59%)
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FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, STJ, SDR, HL, MNG, 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), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), St. James's Place (STJ), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

F&C Investment Trust vs.

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

Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share 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£47.90B0.29£319.08M£5.4244.45
F&C Investment Trust£981.19M5.36£935.32M£192.965.64

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%

Legal & General Group received 1236 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1249
71.86%
Underperform Votes
489
28.14%
F&C Investment TrustOutperform Votes
13
61.90%
Underperform Votes
8
38.10%

Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. 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.

In the previous week, F&C Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Legal & General Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for F&C Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Legal & General Group. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.94 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
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 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)
Positive

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 insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Legal & General Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 267, indicating a potential upside of 10.90%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities 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)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
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 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FCIT vs. The Competition

MetricF&C Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£5.26B£1.19B£5.33B£2.66B
Dividend Yield1.28%4.41%4.18%5.05%
P/E Ratio5.6421.7112.74134.04
Price / Sales5.362,378.451,748.31215,627.72
Price / Cash13.4460.4649.7128.02
Price / Book0.991.151.343.80
Net Income£935.32M£263.32M£1.22B£5.88B
7 Day Performance-0.13%0.15%0.48%0.50%
1 Month Performance8.54%18.08%11.18%21.94%
1 Year Performance6.20%2.28%13.07%119.00%

F&C Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,087.53
-0.6%
N/A+6.0%£5.26B£981.19M5.64N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
LGEN
Legal & General Group
2.0542 of 5 stars
GBX 239.63
0.0%
GBX 267
+11.4%
-4.2%£14.04B£47.90B44.2411,956
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
1.1653 of 5 stars
GBX 991
+0.6%
N/A+14.1%£12.12B£1.26B10.17N/ANews Coverage
Gap Up
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,767.77
+0.2%
N/A-7.5%£8.62B£3.57B3.95N/APositive News
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.3888 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579News Coverage
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
STJ
St. James's Place
1.372 of 5 stars
GBX 1,083.79
+1.9%
GBX 812.33
-25.0%
+128.2%£5.86B£26.27B-908.372,298
SDR
Schroders
1.5492 of 5 stars
GBX 349.60
+0.6%
GBX 404.75
+15.8%
-10.0%£5.42B£2.78B15.276,438News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
2.3905 of 5 stars
N/AGBX 1,055.33
+∞
N/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850Positive News
High Trading Volume
MNG
M&G
0.2591 of 5 stars
GBX 216.90
-0.2%
GBX 223.33
+3.0%
+7.6%£5.17B£9.02B30.936,101
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 325.58
+1.3%
N/A-89.2%£3.84B£1.24B3.20120News Coverage
Positive News

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