MERC vs. SEC, MMIT, FTF, BRSA, BASC, JZCP, PVN, BERI, CLIG, and HANA
Should you be buying Mercia Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercia Asset Management include Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), ProVen VCT (PVN), BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust (BERI), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), and Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Mercia Asset Management (LON:MERC) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
60.8% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.3% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Mercia Asset Management and Mercia Asset Management both had 5 articles in the media. Mercia Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Strategic Equity Capital's score of 0.53 indicating that Mercia Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mercia Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Mercia Asset Management pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 1,250.0% 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 beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Equity Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Mercia Asset Management. Mercia Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Equity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 85.96% compared to Mercia Asset Management's net margin of -9.81%. Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity of 7.20% beat Mercia Asset Management's return on equity.
Mercia Asset Management presently has a consensus target price of GBX 64, suggesting a potential upside of 82.86%. Given Mercia Asset Management's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than Strategic Equity Capital.
Strategic Equity Capital received 34 more outperform votes than Mercia Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.69% of users gave Mercia Asset Management an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave Strategic Equity Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management and Strategic Equity Capital tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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