SMT vs. III, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, and PCT
Should you be buying Scottish Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Mortgage include 3i Group (III), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and 3i Group (LON:III) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 3i Group has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. 3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 56 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
3i Group has a net margin of 95.86% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. 3i Group's return on equity of 27.62% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 1 more articles in the media than 3i Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 1 mentions for 3i Group. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat 3i Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
3i Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
3i Group received 285 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.59% of users gave 3i Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of 3i Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of 3i Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
3i Group has a consensus price target of GBX 2,800, indicating a potential downside of 2.20%. Given 3i Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
Summary
3i Group beats Scottish Mortgage on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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