Critical Survey: FG Merger II (FGMC) versus Its Rivals

FG Merger II (NASDAQ:FGMC) is one of 89 public companies in the “UNCLASSIFIED” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare FG Merger II to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations for FG Merger II and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FG Merger II	1	0	0	0	1.00
FG Merger II Competitors	242	267	217	3	1.97

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 121.56%. Given FG Merger II’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe FG Merger II has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares FG Merger II and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FG Merger II	N/A	429.85%	1.58%
FG Merger II Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

52.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 20.2% of FG Merger II shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 42.9% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares FG Merger II and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
FG Merger II	N/A	-$30,000.00	1,001.00
FG Merger II Competitors	$41.37 million	-$18.84 million	93.03

FG Merger II’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than FG Merger II. FG Merger II is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

FG Merger II peers beat FG Merger II on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

FG Merger II Company Profile

FG Merger II Corp. is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on September 20, 2023 and is headquartered in Itasca, IL.