EMG vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying Man Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Man Group include Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), 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.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and Man Group (LON:EMG) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.3% of Man Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Man Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Man Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Man Group pays out 8,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Man Group had 3 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Man Group and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Man Group's score of 0.80 indicating that Man Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Man Group has a consensus target price of GBX 309, indicating a potential upside of 17.22%. Given Scottish Mortgage's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Man Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
Man Group received 696 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote while only 60.79% of users gave Man Group an outperform vote.
Man Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Man Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Man Group has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Man Group has a net margin of 20.03% compared to Man Group's net margin of 0.00%. Scottish Mortgage's return on equity of 14.19% beat Man Group's return on equity.
Summary
Man Group beats Scottish Mortgage on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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