SMT vs. III, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDRC, STJ, SDR, FCIT, HL, and MNG
Should you be buying Scottish Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Mortgage include 3i Group (III), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), St. James's Place (STJ), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and M&G (MNG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage vs.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and 3i Group (LON:III) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. 3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Scottish Mortgage pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 3i Group pays out 15.4% 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.
3i Group has a consensus target price of GBX 4,021, suggesting a potential downside of 0.81%. Given 3i Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 3i Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, 3i Group had 6 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for 3i Group and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. 3i Group's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Scottish Mortgage's score of 0.66 indicating that 3i Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3i Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of 3i Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of 3i Group 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.
3i Group has a net margin of 96.45% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 94.48%. 3i Group's return on equity of 19.97% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
3i Group received 289 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.67% of users gave 3i Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
Summary
3i Group beats Scottish Mortgage on 19 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SMT) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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