MERC vs. SCS, PTV, BRGE, CHRY, SEIT, EOT, HONY, PHI, JPGI, and JLEN
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), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Pollen Street (HONY), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN).
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 business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
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.
74.1% of ScS Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.7% of Mercia Asset Management shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of ScS Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Mercia Asset Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 3.3%. 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.
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.
Mercia Asset Management has a consensus price target of GBX 64, suggesting a potential upside of 113.33%. Given Mercia Asset Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than ScS Group.
ScS Group received 148 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 69.61% of users gave Mercia Asset Management an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ScS Group had 1 more articles in the media than Mercia Asset Management. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ScS Group and 2 mentions for Mercia Asset Management. Mercia Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat ScS Group's score of 0.23 indicating that Mercia Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ScS Group has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercia Asset Management has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management beats ScS Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MERC) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff