MERC vs. SCS, PTV, BRGE, AAA, HSL, ARW, JEGI, JEDT, BRSC, and POLN
Should you be buying Mercia Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercia Asset Management include ScS Group (SCS), PeerTV (PTV), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), All Active Asset Capital (AAA), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Arrow Global Group (ARW), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), and Pollen Street Group (POLN).
Mercia Asset Management vs. Its Competitors
ScS Group (LON:SCS) and Mercia Asset Management (LON:MERC) are both small-cap business supplies companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
74.1% of ScS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.8% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of ScS Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.0% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ScS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share. Mercia Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. ScS Group pays out 12,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mercia Asset Management pays out 115.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mercia Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mercia Asset Management has a consensus target price of GBX 65.50, suggesting a potential upside of 94.36%. Given Mercia Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than ScS Group.
Mercia Asset Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ScS Group. ScS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mercia Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mercia Asset Management had 1 more articles in the media than ScS Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mercia Asset Management and 0 mentions for ScS Group. Mercia Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat ScS Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Mercia Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mercia Asset Management has a net margin of 1,438.02% compared to ScS Group's net margin of 1.37%. Mercia Asset Management's return on equity of 223.48% beat ScS Group's return on equity.
ScS Group has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercia Asset Management has a beta of 1.2, indicating that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management beats ScS Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:MERC) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff