Quilter (QLT) Competitors

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and Quilter (LON:QLT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.

Do insiders & institutionals believe in ICP or QLT?

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.1% of Quilter shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Quilter shares are owned by 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.

Do analysts rate ICP or QLT?

Quilter has a consensus price target of GBX 135, indicating a potential downside of 9.64%. Given Intermediate Capital Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than Quilter.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intermediate Capital Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Quilter	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Is ICP or QLT more profitable?

Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to Quilter's net margin of 0.78%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat Quilter's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group	56.78%	20.09%	4.57%
Quilter	0.78%	3.33%	0.21%

Which has more volatility and risk, ICP or QLT?

Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Quilter has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ICP or QLT a better dividend stock?

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. Quilter pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. 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. Quilter pays out 134.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Quilter is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ICP or QLT?

Intermediate Capital Group received 325 more outperform votes than Quilter when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 60.83% of users gave Quilter an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Intermediate Capital Group	Outperform Votes 398 70.44%	Underperform Votes 167 29.56%
Quilter	Outperform Votes 73 60.83%	Underperform Votes 47 39.17%

Does the media refer more to ICP or QLT?

In the previous week, Quilter had 2 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Quilter and 0 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Quilter's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Quilter is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group	Neutral
Quilter	Neutral

Which has higher valuation & earnings, ICP or QLT?

Intermediate Capital Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Quilter. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Quilter, 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
Quilter	£6.38B	0.31	£49.61M	£3.72	40.17

Summary

Quilter beats Intermediate Capital Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.