FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, STJ, SDR, HL, MNG, and PCT
Should you be buying F&C Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&C Investment Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), St. James's Place (STJ), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
F&C Investment Trust vs.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 10 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat F&C Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Legal & General Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 267, suggesting a potential upside of 8.54%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legal & General Group. F&C Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.0% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by 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.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 95.33% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 0.67%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 18.50% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.
Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Legal & General Group pays out 387.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. F&C Investment Trust pays out 7.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Legal & General Group received 1236 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.86% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:FCIT) was last updated on 3/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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