MNG vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDR, SDRC, FCIT, HL, PCT, and ATST
Should you be buying M&G stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of M&G include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
M&G (LON:MNG) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
54.8% of M&G shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of M&G shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
M&G has a net margin of 4.73% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 3.81%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 8.59% beat M&G's return on equity.
M&G has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Legal & General Group received 1190 more outperform votes than M&G when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.82% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 49.04% of users gave M&G an outperform vote.
M&G pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 20 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. M&G pays out 16,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Legal & General Group pays out 28,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. M&G is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
M&G presently has a consensus price target of GBX 224.17, indicating a potential upside of 12.59%. Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 301, indicating a potential upside of 20.40%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than M&G.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than M&G. M&G is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 3 more articles in the media than M&G. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for M&G. M&G's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.29 indicating that M&G is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats M&G on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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