Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT) Competitors

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Is ICP or FGT a better dividend stock?

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Finsbury Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Finsbury Growth & Income pays out 3,114.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in ICP or FGT?

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is ICP or FGT more profitable?

Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 56.78%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group	56.78%	20.09%	4.57%
Finsbury Growth & Income	89.62%	7.05%	4.42%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ICP or FGT?

Intermediate Capital Group received 320 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Intermediate Capital Group	Outperform Votes 398 70.44%	Underperform Votes 167 29.56%
Finsbury Growth & Income	Outperform Votes 78 70.27%	Underperform Votes 33 29.73%

Does the media prefer ICP or FGT?

In the previous week, Intermediate Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Finsbury Growth & Income'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group	Neutral
Finsbury Growth & Income	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, ICP or FGT?

Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Finsbury Growth & Income. Finsbury Growth & Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intermediate Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Intermediate Capital Group	£831.60M	7.50	£409.10M	£0.77	2,787.76
Finsbury Growth & Income	£143.78M	10.98	£128.86M	£0.61	1,411.48

Which has more volatility and risk, ICP or FGT?

Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Intermediate Capital Group beats Finsbury Growth & Income on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.