SCF vs. MUT, IEM, MRCH, NBPE, TFIF, AGT.LN, ICGT, JESC, ESCT, and BGSC
Should you be buying Schroder Income Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Income Growth include Murray Income Trust (MUT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), and BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder Income Growth vs.
Schroder Income Growth (LON:SCF) and Murray Income Trust (LON:MUT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Murray Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder Income Growth. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Murray Income Trust and 0 mentions for Schroder Income Growth. Murray Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Schroder Income Growth's score of 1.27 indicating that Murray Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Schroder Income Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Murray Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 39 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Schroder Income Growth pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Murray Income Trust pays out 43.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Schroder Income Growth is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Murray Income Trust received 32 more outperform votes than Schroder Income Growth when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.68% of users gave Schroder Income Growth an outperform vote while only 60.37% of users gave Murray Income Trust an outperform vote.
Schroder Income Growth has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Murray Income Trust has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Murray Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Income Growth. Schroder Income Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Murray Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Murray Income Trust has a net margin of 92.34% compared to Schroder Income Growth's net margin of 91.20%. Schroder Income Growth's return on equity of 17.23% beat Murray Income Trust's return on equity.
10.8% of Schroder Income Growth shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.0% of Murray Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Schroder Income Growth shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Murray Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Murray Income Trust beats Schroder Income Growth on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SCF) was last updated on 5/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff