FGT vs. SDRC, SDR, HL, MNG, FCIT, STJ, PCT, ATST, UKW, and 3IN
Should you be buying Finsbury Growth & Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finsbury Growth & Income include Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), St. James's Place (STJ), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroders (LON:SDRC) and Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.
Finsbury Growth & Income has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Schroders. Schroders is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Finsbury Growth & Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Schroders and Schroders both had 1 articles in the media. Finsbury Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.50 beat Schroders' score of 0.00 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schroders pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Finsbury Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Schroders pays out 60.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Finsbury Growth & Income pays out 3,114.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Schroders' net margin of 0.00%. Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity of 7.05% beat Schroders' return on equity.
Schroders received 57 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.68% of users gave Schroders an outperform vote while only 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote.
28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Finsbury Growth & Income beats Schroders on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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