ICP vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying Intermediate Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intermediate Capital Group include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), 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 Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 3.81%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Legal & General Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 301, suggesting a potential upside of 20.40%. Given Intermediate Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than Intermediate Capital Group.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 2 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.29 indicating that Intermediate Capital Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group received 843 more outperform votes than Intermediate Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote.
47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group 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.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. 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. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% 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 and Intermediate Capital Group tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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