FRME vs SII Comparison

First Merchants Corp, through its subsidiaries, provides its customers with financial services delivered locally by bankers. It offers personal banking, business banking, real estate mortgage lending, cash management services, brokerage, wealth management, and insurance. The company reports in only one segment which is community banking.

Sprott Inc is an alternative asset manager. The company has four reportable segments: Exchange Listed Products, which derives key revenue, and includes management services to the company's closed-end physical trusts and exchange-traded funds, both of which are actively traded on public securities exchanges; Managed equities segment provides asset management and sub-advisory services to the company's branded funds, fixed-term LPs and managed accounts; Private strategies which provide lending and streaming activities through limited partnership vehicles; and the Corporate segment which provides capital, balance sheet management and enterprise shared services to the company's subsidiaries. Geographically, it derives key revenue from Canada, followed by the United States.