SCP vs. ICGT, RICA, IEM, CGT, SAIN, MUT, JEO, APEO, ESCT, and BLU
Should you be buying Schroder UK Mid Cap stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder UK Mid Cap include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Capital Gearing (CGT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Murray Income Trust (MUT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), and Blue Star Capital (BLU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder UK Mid Cap vs. Its Competitors
ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and Schroder UK Mid Cap (LON:SCP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk and valuation.
ICG Enterprise Trust has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder UK Mid Cap has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder UK Mid Cap has a net margin of 90.71% compared to ICG Enterprise Trust's net margin of 58.54%. Schroder UK Mid Cap's return on equity of 15.45% beat ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity.
In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Schroder UK Mid Cap. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for ICG Enterprise Trust and 1 mentions for Schroder UK Mid Cap. ICG Enterprise Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Schroder UK Mid Cap's score of 0.00 indicating that ICG Enterprise Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
65.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Schroder UK Mid Cap shares are held by institutional investors. 12.3% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Schroder UK Mid Cap shares are held 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.
ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 34 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Schroder UK Mid Cap pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 67.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Schroder UK Mid Cap pays out 20.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Schroder UK Mid Cap is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Schroder UK Mid Cap has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ICG Enterprise Trust. Schroder UK Mid Cap is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Schroder UK Mid Cap beats ICG Enterprise Trust on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:SCP) was last updated on 8/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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