Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (MRC)

Sector:

Investment Firms

Index:

FTSE 250

273.50p
   
  • Change Today:
    -2.00p
  • 52 Week High: 289.00
  • 52 Week Low: 237.00
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 621.25m
  • Volume: 1,356,761
  • Market Cap: £1,699.13m

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 2.9% 0.0%
Div Cover 1.1 n/a
Op Mrgn 97.5% n/a
ROCE 3.6%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 30.3 n/a
PEG 9.4 n/a
Pr/Revenue 24.5 n/a
Pr/Book 0.9  
Latest F'cast
Revenue -5.8% n/a
PBT -5.3% n/a
EPS 3.2% n/a
DPS 3.8% n/a

MRC Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
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%
31-Jan-25 76.73 70.02 8.96p 27.5 n/a -1% 7.90p 3.2%
31-Jan-26 72.30 66.35 9.25p 28.9 9.6 +3% 8.20p 3.1%

MRC Company Announcements

Gearing announcement 09-Mar-2026 11:13 RNS
Transaction in Own Shares 31-Dec-2025 13:13 RNS
Gearing announcement 29-Dec-2025 12:21 RNS

MRC ShareCast News

Mercantile Investment Trust FY returns trail ben... 10-Apr-2026 ShareCast
Gearing announcement 09-Mar-2026 ShareCast
Transaction in Own Shares 31-Dec-2025 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 273.50p
Change Today -2.00p
% Change -0.73 %
52 Week High 289.00
52 Week Low 237.00
Volume 1,356,761
Shares Issued 621.25m
Market Cap £1,699.13m

MRC Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
64.04% below the market average64.04% below the market average64.04% below the market average64.04% below the market average64.04% below the market average
28.46% below the sector average28.46% below the sector average28.46% below the sector average28.46% below the sector average28.46% below the sector average
Price Trend
33.56% above the market average33.56% above the market average33.56% above the market average33.56% above the market average33.56% above the market average
20.15% above the sector average20.15% above the sector average20.15% above the sector average20.15% above the sector average20.15% above the sector average
Income
34.34% below the market average34.34% below the market average34.34% below the market average34.34% below the market average34.34% below the market average
51.38% above the sector average51.38% above the sector average51.38% above the sector average51.38% above the sector average51.38% above the sector average
Growth
45.35% below the market average45.35% below the market average45.35% below the market average45.35% below the market average45.35% below the market average
22.58% below the sector average22.58% below the sector average22.58% below the sector average22.58% below the sector average22.58% below the sector average

MRC Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Q2 Q1
Ex-Div 24-Sep-26 11-Jun-26
Paid 02-Nov-26 03-Aug-26
Amount 1.60p 1.60p

Trades for 02-Oct-2026

Time Volume / Share Price
16:41 51,387 @ 278.22p
16:41 91 @ 278.00p
16:40 272,453 @ 274.76p
16:35 60,580 @ 273.50p
16:35 1,347 @ 273.50p

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