JLEN vs. EOT, USA, PHI, BUT, THRG, EWI, HSL, NAS, BRGE, and IPX
Should you be buying JLEN Environmental Assets Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JLEN Environmental Assets Group include European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Brunner (BUT), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), and Impax Asset Management Group (IPX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) and European Opportunities Trust (LON:EOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
41.9% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of European Opportunities Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of European Opportunities Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. European Opportunities Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out 40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. European Opportunities Trust pays out 615.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, JLEN Environmental Assets Group had 1 more articles in the media than European Opportunities Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group and 0 mentions for European Opportunities Trust. JLEN Environmental Assets Group's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat European Opportunities Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that JLEN Environmental Assets Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
European Opportunities Trust has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. European Opportunities Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JLEN Environmental Assets Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
European Opportunities Trust has a net margin of 82.32% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 51.04%. European Opportunities Trust's return on equity of 7.40% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its stock price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Opportunities Trust has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group received 81 more outperform votes than European Opportunities Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
European Opportunities Trust beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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