SII vs MBIN Comparison

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.

Merchants Bancorp is a United States-based bank holding company operating multiple lines of business focused on FHA multi-family housing and healthcare facility financing and servicing, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, and traditional community banking. Its segments include Multi-family Mortgage Banking, which originates and services government-sponsored mortgages for multi-family and healthcare facilities; Mortgage Warehousing, which offers mortgage warehouse financing, commercial loans and deposit services; and the Banking segment, which generates maximum revenue and provides portfolio lending for multi-family and healthcare facility loans, residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending, SBA lending and community banking.