MNG vs. FCIT, PCT, HL, ATST, SDR, ICP, EMG, 3IN, RCP, and IIG
Should you be buying M&G stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&G include F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Polar Capital Technology (PCT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Alliance Trust (ATST), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Man Group (EMG), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), and Intuitive Investments Group (IIG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
M&G (LON:MNG) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. M&G pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. F&C Investment Trust pays out 2,153.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, M&G's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled F&C Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
M&G has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than M&G. F&C Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&G, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.7% of M&G shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.2% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of M&G shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 85.42% compared to M&G's net margin of 4.73%.
M&G presently has a consensus target price of GBX 222.60, suggesting a potential upside of 12.48%. Given M&G's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe M&G is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
M&G received 38 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave M&G an outperform vote.
Summary
M&G beats F&C Investment Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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