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Mercia Asset Management (MERC) Competitors

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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
ScS Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Mercia Asset Management
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ScS Group£325.86M0.00£4.45M£0.12N/A
Mercia Asset Management£35.20M4.13£436.32M£0.014,212.50

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
ScS Group Neutral
Mercia Asset Management Very Positive

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ScS Group1.37% 9.30% 2.77%
Mercia Asset Management 1,438.02%223.48%0.31%

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

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MERC vs. The Competition

MetricMercia Asset ManagementAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£145.43M£1.44B£6.37B£2.58B
Dividend Yield2.88%4.59%4.31%5.30%
P/E Ratio4,212.504,764.431,781.325,421.97
Price / Sales4.131,966.701,358.7296,934.77
Price / Cash2.6060.6248.9927.93
Price / Book0.791.352.068.38
Net Income£436.32M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.12%12.57%6.77%6.66%
1 Month Performance5.31%13.47%7.50%50.76%
1 Year Performance0.60%8.63%32.00%167.76%

Mercia Asset Management Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MERC
Mercia Asset Management
3.061 of 5 stars
GBX 33.70
+2.1%
GBX 65.50
+94.4%
-1.5%£145.43M£35.20M4,212.503,320Positive News
SCS
ScS Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£91.53M£325.86M2,250.0011,800
PTV
PeerTV
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.00147,000
BRGE
BlackRock Greater Europe
N/AGBX 576.90
+0.5%
N/AN/A£548.59M-£10.55M-4,377.09N/A
AAA
All Active Asset Capital
N/AN/AN/AN/A£545.58M£13.16K-176.67N/A
HSL
Henderson Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 850.10
+0.0%
N/A-2.1%£545.02M-£44.23M-1,388.15N/A
ARW
Arrow Global Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£544.66M£269.20M35.2922,300
JEGI
JPMorgan European Growth & Income
N/AGBX 128.05
+0.0%
N/A+25.0%£540.06M£18.87M3,637.73N/APositive News
JEDT
JPMorgan European Discovery
N/AGBX 569
+0.7%
N/A+23.2%£539.54M£11.37M11,178.78N/ANews Coverage
BRSC
BlackRock Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,294.16
+0.2%
N/A-12.1%£538.64M-£3.23M-14,205.93N/APositive News
POLN
Pollen Street Group
N/AGBX 894
-0.4%
N/A+26.3%£538.08M£102.09M1,134.5284News Coverage

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This page (LON:MERC) was last updated on 9/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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