Schroder UK Mid Cap (SCP) Competitors

Impax Environmental Markets (LON:IEM) and Schroder UK Mid Cap (LON:SCP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of IEM or SCP?

41.2% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Schroder UK Mid Cap shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Impax Environmental Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Schroder UK Mid Cap shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to IEM or SCP?

In the previous week, Impax Environmental Markets had 2 more articles in the media than Schroder UK Mid Cap. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Impax Environmental Markets and 0 mentions for Schroder UK Mid Cap. Impax Environmental Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Schroder UK Mid Cap's score of 0.00 indicating that Impax Environmental Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Impax Environmental Markets	Neutral
Schroder UK Mid Cap	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, IEM or SCP?

Schroder UK Mid Cap has higher revenue and earnings than Impax Environmental Markets. Impax Environmental Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder UK Mid Cap, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Impax Environmental Markets	£1.35M	628.56	-£9.32M	-£4.02	-90.78
Schroder UK Mid Cap	£40.15M	5.39	£36.42M	£105.24	5.95

Which has more risk and volatility, IEM or SCP?

Impax Environmental Markets has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder UK Mid Cap has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is IEM or SCP a better dividend stock?

Impax Environmental Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Schroder UK Mid Cap pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Impax Environmental Markets pays out -124.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Schroder UK Mid Cap pays out 20.0% 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.

Is IEM or SCP more profitable?

Schroder UK Mid Cap has a net margin of 90.71% compared to Impax Environmental Markets' net margin of -691.26%. Schroder UK Mid Cap's return on equity of 15.45% beat Impax Environmental Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Impax Environmental Markets	-691.26%	-0.93%	-0.44%
Schroder UK Mid Cap	90.71%	15.45%	4.88%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IEM or SCP?

Schroder UK Mid Cap received 35 more outperform votes than Impax Environmental Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.33% of users gave Schroder UK Mid Cap an outperform vote while only 66.99% of users gave Impax Environmental Markets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Impax Environmental Markets	Outperform Votes 69 66.99%	Underperform Votes 34 33.01%
Schroder UK Mid Cap	Outperform Votes 104 69.33%	Underperform Votes 46 30.67%

Summary

Schroder UK Mid Cap beats Impax Environmental Markets on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.