AJB vs. BNKR, JTC, BHMG, ASHM, QLT, PIN, MYI, RAT, ASL, and ATT
Should you be buying AJ Bell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AJ Bell include Bankers (BNKR), JTC (JTC), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), Ashmore Group (ASHM), Quilter (QLT), Pantheon International (PIN), Murray International (MYI), Rathbones Group (RAT), Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL), and Allianz Technology Trust (ATT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bankers (LON:BNKR) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
AJ Bell has higher revenue and earnings than Bankers. AJ Bell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bankers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
23.3% of Bankers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of AJ Bell shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Bankers shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 33.2% of AJ Bell shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bankers received 45 more outperform votes than AJ Bell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.43% of users gave Bankers an outperform vote while only 42.35% of users gave AJ Bell an outperform vote.
Bankers has a net margin of 81.59% compared to Bankers' net margin of 31.40%. Bankers' return on equity of 45.57% beat AJ Bell's return on equity.
In the previous week, AJ Bell had 2 more articles in the media than Bankers. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for AJ Bell and 1 mentions for Bankers. Bankers' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat AJ Bell's score of -0.58 indicating that AJ Bell is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bankers pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Bankers pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AJ Bell pays out 6,470.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Bankers has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AJ Bell has a consensus target price of GBX 390.25, indicating a potential upside of 9.31%. Given Bankers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than Bankers.
Summary
AJ Bell beats Bankers on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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