LGEN vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, FCIT, MNG, AV, STAN, AIBG, and PRU
Should you be buying Legal & General Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legal & General Group include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Aviva (AV), Standard Chartered (STAN), AIB Group (AIBG), and Prudential (PRU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Legal & General Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 307.80, indicating a potential upside of 25.63%. Given Legal & General Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 5 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Legal & General Group and 4 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Scottish Mortgage's score of 0.11 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Legal & General Group received 1106 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
Legal & General Group has a net margin of 3.81% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 8.59% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
48.6% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage 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.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage pays out -754.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Scottish Mortgage on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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