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F&C Investment Trust (FCIT) Competitors

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GBX 971.50 -13.50 (-1.37%)
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FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, STJ, MNG, and ATST

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), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), St. James's Place (STJ), M&G (MNG), and Alliance Trust (ATST). 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Legal & General GroupOutperform Votes
1249
71.86%
Underperform Votes
489
28.14%
F&C Investment TrustOutperform Votes
13
61.90%
Underperform Votes
8
38.10%

Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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.

In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 6 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Legal & General Group and 3 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat F&C Investment Trust's score of 0.93 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Legal & General Group
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
F&C Investment Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust 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.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Legal & General Group£47.90B0.27£319.08M£5.4241.39
F&C Investment Trust£981.19M4.86£935.32M£192.965.11

Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Legal & General Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 267, indicating a potential upside of 19.09%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Legal & General Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80
F&C Investment Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Legal & General Group0.67% 7.79% 0.18%
F&C Investment Trust 95.33%18.50%10.80%

Summary

Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FCIT vs. The Competition

MetricF&C Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£4.77B£1.02B£3.83B£2.35B
Dividend Yield1.28%4.44%4.20%4.95%
P/E Ratio5.1123.6014.27116.54
Price / Sales4.862,230.311,673.22243,032.23
Price / Cash13.4460.7849.0227.90
Price / Book0.901.043.264.31
Net Income£935.32M£259.67M£1.29B£5.78B
7 Day Performance-8.15%-6.24%-4.87%-4.90%
1 Month Performance-11.60%-8.02%-5.58%-5.69%
1 Year Performance-1.15%-3.56%4.25%96.88%

F&C Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 971.50
-1.4%
N/A-1.5%£4.70B£981.19M5.03N/ADividend Announcement
LGEN
Legal & General Group
1.9136 of 5 stars
GBX 244.50
+0.7%
GBX 267
+9.2%
-11.3%£14.33B£47.90B45.1411,956News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
SMT
Scottish Mortgage
1.3498 of 5 stars
GBX 950.11
+0.7%
N/A-3.2%£11.62B£1.26B9.75N/APositive News
PSH
Pershing Square
N/AGBX 3,808
+1.9%
N/A-16.2%£8.71B£3.57B3.99N/ANews Coverage
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.4344 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
2.9256 of 5 stars
GBX 348.80
+0.3%
GBX 427.33
+22.5%
-19.2%£5.41B£2.78B15.236,438
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.6833 of 5 stars
GBX 1,108.50
flat
GBX 1,104
-0.4%
+53.1%£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
STJ
St. James's Place
1.27 of 5 stars
GBX 971.10
-0.6%
GBX 784.25
-19.2%
+91.4%£5.25B£26.27B-813.922,298News Coverage
MNG
M&G
0.9768 of 5 stars
GBX 200.64
+1.1%
GBX 223.75
+11.5%
-13.6%£4.78B£9.02B28.616,101
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
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