Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (MRC)

Sector:

Investment Firms

Index:

FTSE 250

254.00p
   
  • Change Today:
      0.50p
  • 52 Week High: 258.00
  • 52 Week Low: 202.50
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 719.81m
  • Volume: 2,600,300
  • Market Cap: £1,828.32m
  • Beta: 0.01

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 3.1% 0.0%
Div Cover 1.1 n/a
Op Mrgn 96.7% n/a
ROCE 3.8%  
Latest F'cast
P/E 28.3 n/a
PEG n/a n/a
Pr/Revenue 23.8 n/a
Pr/Book 0.9  
Latest F'cast
Revenue 4.7% n/a
PBT -1.7% n/a
EPS -0.6% n/a
DPS 3.3% n/a

MRC Fundamentals

Year Ending Revenue (£m) Pre-tax (£m) EPS P/E PEG EPS Grth. Div Yield
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%
31-Jan-25 76.73 70.02 8.96p 27.5 n/a -1% 7.90p 3.2%

MRC Company Announcements

Transaction in Own Shares 05-Aug-2025 17:06 RNS
Net Asset Value(s) 05-Aug-2025 11:26 RNS
Director/PDMR Shareholding 05-Aug-2025 09:36 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

Traded Action Notifier PriceAmountValue
30-Jul-25 Buy Heather Hopkins 250.43p 5,162 £12,927.14
04-Jun-25 Buy Rachel Beagles 252.90p 1,016 £2,569.46

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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 254.00p
Change Today 0.50p
% Change 0.20 %
52 Week High 258.00
52 Week Low 202.50
Volume 2,600,300
Shares Issued 719.81m
Market Cap £1,828.32m
Beta 0.01

MRC Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
49.06% above the market average49.06% above the market average49.06% above the market average49.06% above the market average49.06% above the market average
72.79% above the sector average72.79% above the sector average72.79% above the sector average72.79% above the sector average72.79% above the sector average
Price Trend
43.31% above the market average43.31% above the market average43.31% above the market average43.31% above the market average43.31% above the market average
38.00% above the sector average38.00% above the sector average38.00% above the sector average38.00% above the sector average38.00% above the sector average
Income
20.83% below the market average20.83% below the market average20.83% below the market average20.83% below the market average20.83% below the market average
53.30% above the sector average53.30% above the sector average53.30% above the sector average53.30% above the sector average53.30% above the sector average
Growth
15.05% above the market average15.05% above the market average15.05% above the market average15.05% above the market average15.05% above the market average
11.74% above the sector average11.74% above the sector average11.74% above the sector average11.74% above the sector average11.74% above the sector average

MRC Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Q1 Q4
Ex-Div 05-Jun-25 10-Apr-25
Paid 01-Aug-25 16-May-25
Amount 1.55p 3.40p

Trades for 05-Aug-2025

Time Volume / Share Price
17:02 4,772 @ 254.00p
16:46 300,000 @ 253.93p
16:46 238,000 @ 254.60p
16:37 75,000 @ 254.00p
16:36 25,000 @ 254.00p

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