MNG vs. FCIT, HL, SDR, PCT, ATST, ICP, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and RCP
Should you be buying M&G stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&G include F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), and RIT Capital Partners (RCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
M&G (LON:MNG) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both mid-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.
M&G received 38 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 49.04% of users gave M&G an outperform vote.
55.7% of M&G shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of F&C Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of M&G shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C 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.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 91.19% compared to M&G's net margin of 4.73%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 11.00% beat M&G's return on equity.
M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. M&G pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. F&C Investment Trust pays out 1,456.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
M&G has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, M&G had 7 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for M&G and 0 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat M&G's score of 0.08 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than M&G. F&C Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M&G, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
M&G presently has a consensus price target of GBX 224.17, indicating a potential upside of 9.08%. Given M&G's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe M&G is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
Summary
M&G beats F&C Investment Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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