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FCIT vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, SDR, HL, MNG, STJ, and PCT
Should you be buying F&C Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of F&C Investment Trust include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), M&G (MNG), St. James's Place (STJ), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
F&C Investment Trust vs.
Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) and F&C Investment Trust (LON:FCIT) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.
F&C Investment Trust has a net margin of 95.32% compared to Legal & General Group's net margin of 2.46%. F&C Investment Trust's return on equity of 18.95% beat Legal & General Group's return on equity.
Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets Legal & General Group 2.46% 6.51% 0.18% F&C Investment Trust 95.32% 18.95% 10.80% 47.1% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of F&C Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. F&C Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Legal & General Group pays out 42,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. F&C Investment Trust pays out 781.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
F&C Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Legal & General Group. F&C Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Company Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio £12.32B 1.08 £281M £0.05 4,568.00 £1.02B 4.96 £976.90M £1.92 534.38 Legal & General Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 279, suggesting a potential upside of 22.15%. Given Legal & General Group's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than F&C Investment Trust.
Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score 0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67 0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A Legal & General Group received 1232 more outperform votes than F&C Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.80% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote while only 61.90% of users gave F&C Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Company Underperform Outperform Legal & General Group Outperform Votes 1245
71.80%
Underperform Votes 489
28.20%
F&C Investment Trust Outperform Votes 13
61.90%
Underperform Votes 8
38.10%
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 2 more articles in the media than F&C Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Legal & General Group and 0 mentions for F&C Investment Trust. F&C Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.89 indicating that F&C Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Company Overall Sentiment Positive Positive Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, F&C Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats F&C Investment Trust on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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FCIT vs. The Competition
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| Metric | F&C Investment Trust | Asset Management Industry | Financial Sector | LON Exchange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market Cap | £5.06B | £789.00M | £3.14B | £1.47B |
| Dividend Yield | 1.45% | 13.26% | 4.53% | 11.24% |
| P/E Ratio | 534.38 | 779.02 | 426.88 | 1,634.09 |
| Price / Sales | 4.96 | 14,887.40 | 2,949.52 | 180,223.41 |
| Price / Cash | 13.44 | 82.82 | 49.09 | 34.23 |
| Price / Book | 0.93 | 1.72 | 1.48 | 2.89 |
| Net Income | £976.90M | £54.63M | £400.19M | £156.75M |
| 7 Day Performance | 2.19% | 11.91% | 6.91% | 4.27% |
| 1 Month Performance | -1.35% | 0.37% | 0.95% | -1.50% |
| 1 Year Performance | 13.12% | 8.63% | 12.19% | 27.40% |
F&C Investment Trust Competitors List
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| Company | MarketRank | Share Price | Analysts' Price Target | 1Y Price Performance | Market Cap | Revenue | P/E Ratio | Employee Count | Indicator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2847 of 5 stars2.28 / 5 stars | GBX 225.20 +0.5% | GBX 279 +23.9% | -1.2% | £13.17B | £12.32B | 4,504.00 | 11,956 | Positive News | |
| SMTScottish Mortgage | 0.3584 of 5 stars0.36 / 5 stars | GBX 810.20 +2.0% | N/A | N/A | £11.18B | £-712,340,000.00 | -1,558.08 | N/A | Positive News |
| PSHPershing Square | 0 of 5 stars0.00 / 5 stars | N/A | N/A | +16.8% | £6.52B | £3.14B | 336.24 | N/A | Dividend Increase |
| ICPIntermediate Capital Group | 0.8684 of 5 stars0.87 / 5 stars | GBX 2,146.57 +1.6% | N/A | N/A | £6.24B | £831.60M | 2,787.76 | 579 | News Coverage |
| SDRCSchroders | 0 of 5 stars0.00 / 5 stars | GBX 2,165 -2.0% | N/A | +0.0% | £6.12B | £3.14B | 1,071.78 | 5,750 | News Coverage High Trading Volume |
| SDRSchroders | 3.3683 of 5 stars3.37 / 5 stars | GBX 333.20 +0.1% | GBX 432 +29.7% | -18.4% | £5.36B | £2.93B | 1,388.33 | 6,438 | |
| HLHargreaves Lansdown | 1.0133 of 5 stars1.01 / 5 stars | GBX 1,108 +0.2% | GBX 1,048.20 -5.4% | +42.4% | £5.25B | £764.90M | 1,787.10 | 1,850 | High Trading Volume |
| 0.8733 of 5 stars0.87 / 5 stars | GBX 203.90 +0.7% | GBX 223.33 +9.5% | +2.0% | £4.85B | £6.28B | 1,699.17 | 6,101 | ||
| STJSt. James's Place | 0.9548 of 5 stars0.95 / 5 stars | GBX 711 +0.4% | GBX 784.25 +10.3% | -16.8% | £3.85B | £26.80B | -71,100.00 | 2,298 | News Coverage |
| PCTPolar Capital Technology Trust | 0 of 5 stars0.00 / 5 stars | GBX 2,880 +3.2% | N/A | -87.0% | £3.44B | £1.15B | 318.58 | 120 | Positive News |
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This page (LON:FCIT) was last updated on 9/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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