III vs. FGT, HRI, OCI, SLPE, JII, SOI, DGN, BSIF, POLR, and SWEF
Should you be buying 3i Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of 3i Group include Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), Herald (HRI), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Polar Capital (POLR), and Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) and 3i Group (LON:III) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
Finsbury Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. 3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Finsbury Growth & Income pays out 3,114.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 3i Group pays out 1,217.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of 3i Group shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of 3i Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
3i Group has higher revenue and earnings than Finsbury Growth & Income. 3i Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Finsbury Growth & Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, 3i Group had 2 more articles in the media than Finsbury Growth & Income. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for 3i Group and 2 mentions for Finsbury Growth & Income. Finsbury Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat 3i Group's score of 1.05 indicating that 3i Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 3i Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
3i Group has a consensus price target of GBX 2,800, indicating a potential downside of 5.34%. Given Finsbury Growth & Income's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Finsbury Growth & Income.
3i Group received 342 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave 3i Group an outperform vote while only 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote.
3i Group has a net margin of 95.86% compared to 3i Group's net margin of 89.62%. Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity of 27.62% beat 3i Group's return on equity.
Summary
3i Group beats Finsbury Growth & Income on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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