SMT vs. III, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, MNG, and STJ
Should you be buying Scottish Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Scottish Mortgage include 3i Group (III), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), M&G (MNG), and St. James's Place (STJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage vs.
Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) and 3i Group (LON:III) are both large-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
3i Group has a net margin of 96.46% compared to Scottish Mortgage's net margin of 0.00%. 3i Group's return on equity of 20.73% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
3i Group has a consensus target price of GBX 3,148, indicating a potential downside of 8.70%. Given 3i Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
3i Group has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than 3i Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. 3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 3i Group pays out 1,536.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
3i Group received 287 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.57% of users gave 3i Group an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 66.1% of 3i Group shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of 3i Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 3i Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, 3i Group had 6 more articles in the media than Scottish Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for 3i Group and 1 mentions for Scottish Mortgage. Scottish Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat 3i Group's score of 0.01 indicating that Scottish Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
3i Group beats Scottish Mortgage on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SMT) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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