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 better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.

Which has more risk and volatility, ICP or FGT?

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

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 prefer 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%

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

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts rate ICP or FGT?

Given Intermediate Capital Group's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than Finsbury Growth & Income.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intermediate Capital Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Finsbury Growth & Income	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is ICP or FGT a better dividend stock?

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. 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. Finsbury Growth & Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, ICP or FGT?

Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Finsbury Growth & Income. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Finsbury Growth & Income, 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	0.00	£409.10M	£0.77	N/A
Finsbury Growth & Income	£143.78M	10.81	£128.86M	£0.61	1,390.16

Does the media favor ICP or FGT?

In the previous week, Finsbury Growth & Income had 1 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Finsbury Growth & Income and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Finsbury Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.20 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Finsbury Growth & Income	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Intermediate Capital Group beats Finsbury Growth & Income on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.