Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (MRC)

Sector:

Investment Firms

Index:

FTSE 250

218.00p
   
  • Change Today:
      2.00p
  • 52 Week High: 229.00
  • 52 Week Low: 177.80
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 776.11m
  • Volume: 855,909
  • Market Cap: £1,691.92m

MRC Overview

The Mercantile Investment Trust PLC is a United Kingdom-based investment trust company. The Company's objective is to achieve long term capital growth from a portfolio of United Kingdom medium and smaller companies. The Company's investment policy includes to emphasize capital growth from medium and smaller companies; to achieve long term dividend growth at least in line with inflation; to use long term gearing to increase potential returns to shareholders, and to invest no more than 15% of gross assets in other United Kingdom listed closed-ended investment funds (including investment trusts). The Company's investment includes sectors, such as industrials, financials, technology, telecommunications, health care, basic materials, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, real estate and utilities.

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Financials

Latest F'cast
Div Yield 3.5% 0.0%
Div Cover 1.2 n/a
Op Mrgn 102.9% n/a
ROCE 4.0%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 24.2 n/a
PEG 1.0 n/a
Pr/Revenue 23.1 n/a
Pr/Book 0.9  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 19.0% n/a
PBT 24.9% n/a
EPS 25.3% n/a
DPS 7.0% n/a

MRC Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
31-Jan-20 67.72 61.11 7.64p 34.2 17.1 +2% 6.60p 2.5%
31-Jan-21 40.06 33.18 4.10p 56.3 n/a -46% 6.70p 2.9%
31-Jan-22 60.99 52.97 6.50p 37.5 0.6 +58% 6.90p 2.8%
31-Jan-23 61.59 57.01 7.19p 29.1 2.6 +11% 7.15p 3.4%
31-Jan-24 73.27 71.21 9.01p 23.8 1.0 +25% 7.65p 3.6%

MRC Company Announcements

Net Asset Value(s) 18-Apr-2024 10:52 RNS
Net Asset Value(s) 17-Apr-2024 10:43 RNS
Net Asset Value(s) 16-Apr-2024 10:30 RNS

MRC ShareCast News

Mercantile Investment Trust reports solid return... 12-Apr-2024 ShareCast
Director dealings: MRC director ups stake 28-Nov-2019 ShareCast
Mercantile completes 'key milestone' at Mumbai p... 03-Nov-2017 ShareCast

MRC Top Newspaper Links

Squeeze sees Blackstone ditch acquisition 02-Jan-2008 Telegraph

Latest MRC Director Deals

No deals were found in the last 28 days.

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Note 2: Above ratios are on a 'per annum' basis, adjusted for corporate actions and based on the fundamentals of the primary listed security.

Note 3: Under IFRS, all figures are based on 'Continuing' operations unless otherwise stated.

Note 4: In the case of dual listed securities, broker recommendations and forecasts relate to the primary listing.

Note 5: Forecast figures based on normalised accounts.

 

MRC Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 218.00p
Change Today 2.00p
% Change 0.93 %
52 Week High 229.00
52 Week Low 177.80
Volume 855,909
Shares Issued 776.11m
Market Cap £1,691.92m

MRC Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
59.87% below the market average59.87% below the market average59.87% below the market average59.87% below the market average59.87% below the market average
26.42% below the sector average26.42% below the sector average26.42% below the sector average26.42% below the sector average26.42% below the sector average
Price Trend
59.43% above the market average59.43% above the market average59.43% above the market average59.43% above the market average59.43% above the market average
70.06% above the sector average70.06% above the sector average70.06% above the sector average70.06% above the sector average70.06% above the sector average
Income
11.28% below the market average11.28% below the market average11.28% below the market average11.28% below the market average11.28% below the market average
59.29% above the sector average59.29% above the sector average59.29% above the sector average59.29% above the sector average59.29% above the sector average
Growth
41.99% above the market average41.99% above the market average41.99% above the market average41.99% above the market average41.99% above the market average
42.02% above the sector average42.02% above the sector average42.02% above the sector average42.02% above the sector average42.02% above the sector average

MRC Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Q4 Q3
Ex-Div 11-Apr-24 21-Dec-23
Paid 16-May-24 01-Feb-24
Amount 3.30p 1.45p

Trades for 18-Apr-2024

Time Volume / Share Price
16:35 46,000 @ 218.00p
16:35 118,555 @ 218.00p
16:35 1,398 @ 218.00p
16:35 50,000 @ 218.00p
16:35 1,336 @ 218.00p

MRC Key Personnel

Chair Angus Gordon Lennox

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