STM vs. JGC, OFG, SDV, CBA, BRIG, JEMA, CLC, NBMI, GPM, and FWT
Should you be buying STM Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of STM Group include Jupiter Green (JGC), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Chelverton UK Dividend Trust (SDV), CEIBA Investments (CBA), BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG), JPMorgan Emerg E, ME & Africa Sec (JEMA), Calculus VCT (CLC), NB Global Monthly Income Fund (NBMI), Golden Prospect Precious Metal (GPM), and Foresight Technology VCT (FWT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Jupiter Green (LON:JGC) and STM Group (LON:STM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
STM Group has higher revenue and earnings than Jupiter Green. Jupiter Green is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than STM Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jupiter Green has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, STM Group has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, STM Group had 2 more articles in the media than Jupiter Green. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for STM Group and 0 mentions for Jupiter Green. STM Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Jupiter Green's score of -0.37 indicating that Jupiter Green is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jupiter Green pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. STM Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Jupiter Green pays out -2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. STM Group pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
21.2% of Jupiter Green shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.6% of STM Group shares are held by institutional investors. 36.4% of Jupiter Green shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.6% of STM Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
STM Group has a net margin of 2.46% compared to STM Group's net margin of -69.86%. Jupiter Green's return on equity of 1.65% beat STM Group's return on equity.
STM Group received 139 more outperform votes than Jupiter Green when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.26% of users gave Jupiter Green an outperform vote while only 57.76% of users gave STM Group an outperform vote.
Summary
STM Group beats Jupiter Green on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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