Mercantile Investment Trust (The) (MRC)

Sector:

Investment Firms

Index:

FTSE 250

 273.00p
   
  • Change Today:
      0.000p
  • 52 Week High: 289.00p
  • 52 Week Low: 237.00p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 617.56m
  • Volume: 6,090,751
  • Market Cap: £1,685.93m

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

Transaction in Own Shares 21-Oct-2026 17:30 RNS
Net Asset Value(s) 21-Oct-2026 10:50 RNS
Transaction in Own Shares 20-Oct-2026 17:34 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

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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 273.00p
Change Today 0.000p
% Change 0.00 %
52 Week High 289.00p
52 Week Low 237.00p
Volume 6,090,751
Shares Issued 617.56m
Market Cap £1,685.93m

MRC Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
60.44% below the market average60.44% below the market average60.44% below the market average60.44% below the market average60.44% below the market average
27.35% below the sector average27.35% below the sector average27.35% below the sector average27.35% below the sector average27.35% below the sector average
Price Trend
33.80% above the market average33.80% above the market average33.80% above the market average33.80% above the market average33.80% above the market average
19.55% above the sector average19.55% above the sector average19.55% above the sector average19.55% above the sector average19.55% above the sector average
Income
22.71% below the market average22.71% below the market average22.71% below the market average22.71% below the market average22.71% below the market average
45.25% above the sector average45.25% above the sector average45.25% above the sector average45.25% above the sector average45.25% above the sector average
Growth
45.79% below the market average45.79% below the market average45.79% below the market average45.79% below the market average45.79% below the market average
25.2% below the sector average25.2% below the sector average25.2% below the sector average25.2% below the sector average25.2% 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 21-Oct-2026

Time Volume / Share Price
16:59 2,285,521 @ 272.00p
16:59 2,285,521 @ 272.00p
16:41 100,000 @ 273.00p
16:35 247,260 @ 273.00p
16:35 4,113 @ 273.00p

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