EMG vs. SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, STJ, FCIT, MNG, HL, and PCT
Should you be buying Man Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Man Group include Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Man Group vs.
Man Group (LON:EMG) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Man Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 281.67, suggesting a potential upside of 32.86%. Given Man Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Man Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
28.8% of Man Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Man Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scottish Mortgage has a net margin of 94.48% compared to Man Group's net margin of 22.58%. Man Group's return on equity of 19.64% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
Man Group has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% 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.
Man Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Man Group pays out 61.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scottish Mortgage pays out 4.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Scottish Mortgage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Man Group. Man Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish Mortgage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Man Group and Man Group both had 4 articles in the media. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Man Group's score of -0.47 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Man Group received 701 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote while only 60.84% of users gave Man Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Scottish Mortgage beats Man Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:EMG) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
