RAT vs. ICP, SDRC, SDR, STJ, FCIT, MNG, HL, PCT, ATST, and PHLL
Should you be buying Rathbones Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rathbones Group include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and Petershill Partners (PHLL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rathbones Group vs.
Rathbones Group (LON:RAT) and Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
Intermediate Capital Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rathbones Group. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rathbones Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to Rathbones Group's net margin of 7.25%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat Rathbones Group's return on equity.
48.0% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 41.8% of Rathbones Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rathbones Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. Rathbones Group pays out 143.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Rathbones Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Given Intermediate Capital Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Intermediate Capital Group is more favorable than Rathbones Group.
Rathbones Group has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, meaning that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Intermediate Capital Group received 39 more outperform votes than Rathbones Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 63.65% of users gave Rathbones Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Rathbones Group had 3 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Rathbones Group and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Rathbones Group's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Rathbones Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Intermediate Capital Group beats Rathbones Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RAT) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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