MERC vs. SCS, PTV, JPGI, JLEN, NAS, FSFL, GHE, TPOU, THRG, and AAS
Should you be buying Mercia Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercia Asset Management include ScS Group (SCS), PeerTV (PTV), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Gresham House (GHE), Third Point Investors (TPOU), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), and abrdn Asia Focus (AAS).
Mercia Asset Management vs.
ScS Group (LON:SCS) and Mercia Asset Management (LON:MERC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking and media sentiment.
Mercia Asset Management has a consensus target price of GBX 64, indicating a potential upside of 154.73%. Given Mercia Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than ScS Group.
74.1% of ScS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of ScS Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mercia Asset Management has a net margin of 1,438.02% compared to ScS Group's net margin of 1.37%. Mercia Asset Management's return on equity of 223.48% beat ScS Group's return on equity.
ScS Group received 149 more outperform votes than Mercia Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.80% of users gave ScS Group an outperform vote while only 69.31% of users gave Mercia Asset Management an outperform vote.
ScS Group has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercia Asset Management has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mercia Asset Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ScS Group. ScS Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mercia Asset Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ScS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Mercia Asset Management's score of -0.05 indicating that ScS Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ScS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share. Mercia Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. ScS Group pays out 12,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mercia Asset Management pays out 1.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mercia Asset Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management beats ScS Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:MERC) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff