FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, STJ, MNG, ICP, 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), M&G (MNG), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), 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
F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.
Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 246.67, suggesting a potential downside of 2.58%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
51.0% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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 an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. F&C Investment Trust pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 4 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Legal & General Group and 2 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.91 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
F&C Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:FCIT) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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