FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying F&C Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&C Investment Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Legal & General Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 301, suggesting a potential upside of 20.84%. Given F&C Investment Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legal & General Group. F&C 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.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 91.19% compared to F&C Investment Trust's net margin of 3.81%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 11.00% beat F&C Investment Trust's return on equity.
47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.1% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 6 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Legal & General Group received 1229 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.83% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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. 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.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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