F&C Investment Trust PLC Analysis

Overview

F&C Investment Trust aims to grow investor capital and income over the mid to long term. They invest primarily in equities, in both well-established companies listed on the world's major stock markets, as well as rising star companies in developing markets. F&C Investment Trust also looks to private equity and unlisted companies in order to add value to unit holders.

Performance

The following information was extracted from Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust Plc's full year results, released on 17 March 2026:

F&C Investment Trust plc ('F&C'/the 'Company') today announces its results for the year ended 31 December 2025.

• F&C’s share price was 1,252 pence representing a share price total return of +14.6%, against the return from its benchmark, the FTSE All-World Index, of +14.2%.

• Over ten years £1,000 invested in F&C on 1 January 2016, assuming dividends had been reinvested in the Company's shares, would be worth £3,283 as at 31 December 2025.

• The Company has delivered a total shareholder return of 619.1% over the twenty-year period to the end of 2025, equivalent to 10.4% per annum.

• The final dividend will be 5.2 pence per share will, subject to shareholder approval at the AGM, bring the total dividend for the year to 16.6 pence per share, a 6.4% increase and the 55th consecutive annual increase.

Commenting on the markets, Paul Niven, Fund Manager said:

“Stronger earnings foundations, more opportunities within global equity markets and a more even distribution of market leadership support a favourable environment for diversified global equity investors.”

The Chairman, Beatrice Hollond, commented:

“Over the ten years to the end of 2025 your Company delivered a share price total return equivalent to +12.6% per annum”