SMT vs. III, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, STJ, and MNG
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), St. James's Place (STJ), and M&G (MNG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Scottish Mortgage vs.
3i Group (LON:III) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
3i Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 61 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. 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. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
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.
3i Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,347.33, suggesting a potential downside of 4.44%. Given 3i Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe 3i Group is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
66.1% of 3i Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of 3i Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 2 more articles in the media than 3i Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 0 mentions for 3i Group. 3i Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Scottish Mortgage's score of -0.06 indicating that 3i Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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