IPO vs. CTY, MRC, WWH, CLDN, HVPE, BPT, JAM, TEM, PNL, and FEV
Should you be buying IP Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IP Group include City of London (CTY), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), JPMorgan American (JAM), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), Personal Assets (PNL), and Fidelity European Trust (FEV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
IP Group (LON:IPO) and City of London (LON:CTY) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and earnings.
IP Group has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, City of London has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
74.3% of IP Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.7% of City of London shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of IP Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of City of London shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
IP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. City of London pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. IP Group pays out -588.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. City of London pays out 8,400.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
IP Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 126, indicating a potential upside of 132.47%. Given IP Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IP Group is more favorable than City of London.
In the previous week, City of London had 16 more articles in the media than IP Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for City of London and 3 mentions for IP Group. IP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat City of London's score of 0.12 indicating that IP Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
IP Group received 293 more outperform votes than City of London when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.47% of users gave IP Group an outperform vote while only 62.96% of users gave City of London an outperform vote.
City of London has higher revenue and earnings than IP Group. IP Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than City of London, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
City of London has a net margin of 90.48% compared to IP Group's net margin of 0.00%. City of London's return on equity of 6.52% beat IP Group's return on equity.
Summary
City of London beats IP Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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