ICG vs. NXT, GFS, SPI, ESP, RTN, APH, IPF, SGM, MSI, and MCP
Should you be buying Intermediate Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intermediate Capital Group include NEXT (NXT), G4S (GFS), Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), Empiric Student Property (ESP), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Alliance Pharma (APH), International Personal Finance (IPF), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), and Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
Intermediate Capital Group vs.
Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICG) and NEXT (LON:NXT) are both manufacturing companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, dividends, community ranking and earnings.
Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.97, indicating that its share price is 97% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXT has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of NEXT shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of NEXT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
NEXT has higher revenue and earnings than Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NEXT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NEXT received 552 more outperform votes than Intermediate Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 50.13% of users gave NEXT an outperform vote.
Intermediate Capital Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,767.25, indicating a potential upside of 34.45%. Given Intermediate Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than NEXT.
In the previous week, NEXT had 5 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for NEXT and 0 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. NEXT's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that NEXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 48.22% compared to NEXT's net margin of 13.77%. NEXT's return on equity of 55.99% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 79 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 216 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 49.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NEXT pays out 32.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
NEXT beats Intermediate Capital Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ICG) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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