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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, 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	20.92	£101.36M	£5.10	21.70

Does the media prefer ICP or HICL?

In the previous week, HICL Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for HICL Infrastructure and 0 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group	Neutral
HICL Infrastructure	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer 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%

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%

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.

Which has more risk & volatility, 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 16 factors compared between the two stocks.