IGG vs. INVP, PLUS, TCAP, ALPH, AFX, CMCX, NUM, FRP, K3C, and PEEL
Should you be buying IG Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IG Group include Investec Group (INVP), Plus500 (PLUS), TP ICAP Group (TCAP), Alpha Group International (ALPH), Alpha FX Group (AFX), CMC Markets (CMCX), Numis (NUM), FRP Advisory Group (FRP), K3 Capital Group (K3C), and Peel Hunt (PEEL). These companies are all part of the "capital markets" industry.
IG Group (LON:IGG) and Investec Group (LON:INVP) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.
IG Group has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Investec Group has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IG Group had 4 more articles in the media than Investec Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for IG Group and 2 mentions for Investec Group. Investec Group's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat IG Group's score of 0.43 indicating that Investec Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.9% of IG Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of Investec Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.6% of IG Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Investec Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IG Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Investec Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 33 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. IG Group pays out 6,216.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Investec Group pays out 4,520.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Investec Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Investec Group has a net margin of 41.64% compared to IG Group's net margin of 31.74%. IG Group's return on equity of 15.67% beat Investec Group's return on equity.
IG Group received 123 more outperform votes than Investec Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.63% of users gave Investec Group an outperform vote while only 66.06% of users gave IG Group an outperform vote.
IG Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 940.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.11%. Given IG Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe IG Group is more favorable than Investec Group.
Investec Group has higher revenue and earnings than IG Group. Investec Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IG Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
IG Group beats Investec Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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