LGEN vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, FCIT, MNG, HL, AV, AIBG, and STAN
Should you be buying Legal & General Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legal & General Group include Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Aviva (AV), AIB Group (AIBG), and Standard Chartered (STAN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (LON:SMT) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Legal & General Group received 1106 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Legal & General Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 307.80, indicating a potential upside of 21.76%. Given Legal & General Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust.
47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 2 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Legal & General Group and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's score of 0.76 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Legal & General Group has a net margin of 3.81% compared to Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 8.59% beat Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust's return on equity.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.34, meaning that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on 17 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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