3IN vs. SMT, PSH, SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying 3i Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of 3i Infrastructure include Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), 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.
3i Infrastructure (LON:3IN) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
3i Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. 3i Infrastructure pays out 3,243.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
3i Infrastructure has a net margin of 98.26% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. 3i Infrastructure's return on equity of 11.00% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
3i Infrastructure received 49 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote while only 65.95% of users gave 3i Infrastructure an outperform vote.
3i Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, 3i Infrastructure had 1 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for 3i Infrastructure and 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat 3i Infrastructure's score of 0.64 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3i Infrastructure has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
54.2% of 3i Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of 3i Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
3i Infrastructure beats Scottish Mortgage on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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