FCIT vs. SMT, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, STJ, 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 Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), St. James's Place (STJ), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
F&C Investment Trust vs.
F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
51.0% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 2 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 1 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Scottish Mortgage's score of 0.01 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 95.32% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 18.95% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. F&C Investment Trust pays out 781.3% 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.
F&C Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than F&C Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Mortgage received 122 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
F&C Investment Trust beats Scottish Mortgage on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:FCIT) was last updated on 2/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
