SYNC vs. MRCH, ICGT, GSCT, APEO, SDP, BBH, TFIF, NBPE, JFJ, and SAIN
Should you be buying Syncona stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Syncona include Merchants Trust (MRCH), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), and Scottish American (SAIN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Merchants Trust (LON:MRCH) and Syncona (LON:SYNC) 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 community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Syncona has a consensus target price of GBX 230, indicating a potential upside of 81.10%. Given Merchants Trust's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Syncona is more favorable than Merchants Trust.
Merchants Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Syncona pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Merchants Trust pays out 21,538.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Syncona pays out -800.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
6.0% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of Syncona shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.2% of Merchants Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Syncona shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Trust has a net margin of 62.42% compared to Merchants Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Syncona's return on equity of 2.08% beat Merchants Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, Merchants Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Syncona. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Merchants Trust and 0 mentions for Syncona. Syncona's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Merchants Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Merchants Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Merchants Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Syncona. Syncona is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merchants Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Syncona received 16 more outperform votes than Merchants Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.88% of users gave Syncona an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Merchants Trust an outperform vote.
Merchants Trust has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Syncona has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Merchants Trust beats Syncona on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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