FGT vs. ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, 3IN, and EMG
Should you be buying Finsbury Growth & Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finsbury Growth & Income include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), and Man Group (EMG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Finsbury Growth & Income's net margin of 56.78%. Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity of 20.09% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Intermediate Capital Group received 320 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote.
Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Finsbury Growth & Income. Finsbury Growth & Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intermediate Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, suggesting that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Finsbury Growth & Income had 6 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Finsbury Growth & Income and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Finsbury Growth & Income's score of 0.87 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Finsbury Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. 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. Finsbury Growth & Income pays out 3,114.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by 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.
Summary
Intermediate Capital Group beats Finsbury Growth & Income on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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