FEV vs. SDR, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, and EMG
Should you be buying Fidelity European Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity European Trust include Schroders (SDR), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), and Man Group (EMG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroders (LON:SDR) and Fidelity European Trust (LON:FEV) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Schroders has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity European Trust. Fidelity European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroders, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
36.5% of Schroders shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.2% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 43.1% of Schroders shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Schroders received 411 more outperform votes than Fidelity European Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.26% of users gave Fidelity European Trust an outperform vote while only 60.25% of users gave Schroders an outperform vote.
Fidelity European Trust has a net margin of 90.56% compared to Fidelity European Trust's net margin of 13.48%. Schroders' return on equity of 16.08% beat Fidelity European Trust's return on equity.
Schroders currently has a consensus target price of GBX 432, suggesting a potential upside of 10.26%. Given Fidelity European Trust's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Schroders is more favorable than Fidelity European Trust.
Schroders pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Fidelity European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Schroders pays out 9,166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity European Trust pays out 1,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Schroders has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity European Trust has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fidelity European Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Schroders. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fidelity European Trust and 0 mentions for Schroders. Schroders' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Fidelity European Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Fidelity European Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fidelity European Trust beats Schroders on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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