HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Does the media prefer ICP or HICL?

In the previous week, Intermediate Capital Group and Intermediate Capital Group both had 1 articles in the media. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that HICL Infrastructure 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)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
HICL Infrastructure	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is ICP or HICL a better dividend stock?

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. 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. HICL Infrastructure pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. HICL Infrastructure is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is ICP or HICL more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 56.78%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group	56.78%	20.09%	4.57%
HICL Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ICP or HICL?

Intermediate Capital Group received 232 more outperform votes than HICL Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.81% of users gave HICL Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Intermediate Capital Group	Outperform Votes 398 70.44%	Underperform Votes 167 29.56%
HICL Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 166 72.81%	Underperform Votes 62 27.19%

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, ICP or HICL?

Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than HICL Infrastructure. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, 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
HICL Infrastructure	£105.30M	20.88	£101.36M	£5.10	21.66

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ICP or HICL?

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are held by company 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.

Which has more volatility & risk, ICP or HICL?

Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Intermediate Capital Group beats HICL Infrastructure on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.