Contrasting Legal & General Group (OTCMKTS:LGGNY) and GlassBridge Enterprises (OTCMKTS:GLAE)

GlassBridge Enterprises (OTCMKTS:GLAE) and Legal & General Group (OTCMKTS:LGGNY) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares GlassBridge Enterprises and Legal & General Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GlassBridge Enterprises	N/A	N/A	N/A
Legal & General Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares GlassBridge Enterprises and Legal & General Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
GlassBridge Enterprises	$100,000.00	8.68	-$3.00 million	N/A	N/A
Legal & General Group	$11.97 billion	1.39	$568.46 million	N/A	N/A

Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than GlassBridge Enterprises.

Risk & Volatility

GlassBridge Enterprises has a beta of 6.78, suggesting that its share price is 578% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.43, suggesting that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for GlassBridge Enterprises and Legal & General Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GlassBridge Enterprises	0	0	0	0	0.00
Legal & General Group	0	0	0	3	4.00

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.0% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of GlassBridge Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Legal & General Group beats GlassBridge Enterprises on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About GlassBridge Enterprises

GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates an asset management business in the United States. It offers investment advisory services to third party investors through managed funds separate managed accounts. The company was formerly known as Imation Corp. and changed its name to GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc. in February 2017. GlassBridge Enterprises, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Legal & General Group

Legal & General Group Plc provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. It operates in Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI), Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), Legal & General Capital (LGC), and Retail segments. The LGRI segment offers annuity contracts with guaranteed income for a specified time; and longevity insurance products. The LGIM segment offers index fund management; active fixed income funds and liquidity funds; active equity management; solution and liability driven investment; multi-asset funds; corporate pension scheme solutions; and real assets. The LGC segment provides investment strategy and implementation, and direct investment and structuring services. The Retail segment offers protection products, such as health, disability, critical illness, and accident; individual term assurance; reinsurance; savings and death benefits; annuities; lifetime mortgages; lifetime care plans; retirement interest only mortgages; and workplace savings scheme that provides corporate pension scheme solutions. It is also involved in the unit trust and institutional fund management, mortgage finance, treasury, building project and modular housing development, general insurance, and open-ended investment businesses. In addition, the company engages in the investment, operation, management, trading, and letting and operation of leased real estate; and construction of commercial buildings, financial intermediation, pension tracing and transfer, insurance agents and brokers, fund general partner, commercial lending, venture capital investing, contractual scheme, investor alternative investment fund, collective asset-management, and investment management activities; and provision of investment advisory, business information consultancy, and technology services. Legal & General Group Plc was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.