JTC vs. AJB, QLT, PIN, MYI, BNKR, RAT, WTAN, FEV, BHMG, and ASHM
Should you be buying JTC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JTC include AJ Bell (AJB), Quilter (QLT), Pantheon International (PIN), Murray International (MYI), Bankers (BNKR), Rathbones Group (RAT), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), and Ashmore Group (ASHM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JTC (LON:JTC) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.
JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. JTC pays out 7,857.1% 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. AJ Bell is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
JTC presently has a consensus target price of GBX 940, suggesting a potential upside of 2.84%. AJ Bell has a consensus target price of GBX 390.25, suggesting a potential upside of 9.62%. Given AJ Bell's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than JTC.
JTC has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, JTC and JTC both had 1 articles in the media. JTC's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat AJ Bell's score of 0.10 indicating that JTC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
AJ Bell has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JTC. AJ Bell is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.0% of JTC shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of AJ Bell shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of JTC shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.2% of AJ Bell shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
AJ Bell has a net margin of 31.40% compared to JTC's net margin of 8.48%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 45.57% beat JTC's return on equity.
JTC received 31 more outperform votes than AJ Bell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.44% of users gave JTC an outperform vote while only 42.35% of users gave AJ Bell an outperform vote.
Summary
AJ Bell beats JTC on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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