MRC vs. BPT, JAM, TEM, HVPE, WWH, CLDN, PNL, FEV, WTAN, and RAT
Should you be buying Mercantile stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercantile include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), JPMorgan American (JAM), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), and Rathbones Group (RAT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) and Mercantile (LON:MRC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Mercantile pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Bridgepoint Group pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mercantile pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.64, indicating that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercantile has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mercantile has a net margin of 76.99% compared to Mercantile's net margin of 21.98%. Mercantile's return on equity of 9.47% beat Bridgepoint Group's return on equity.
Mercantile has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bridgepoint Group. Mercantile is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bridgepoint Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 249.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.01%. Given Mercantile's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Mercantile.
In the previous week, Mercantile had 1 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mercantile and 0 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Mercantile's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Bridgepoint Group's score of 0.10 indicating that Bridgepoint Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
21.5% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.5% of Mercantile shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.8% of Bridgepoint Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Mercantile 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.
Mercantile received 68 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave Mercantile an outperform vote.
Summary
Bridgepoint Group beats Mercantile on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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