JUSC vs. BBGI, MUT, SAIN, JEO, OTV2, APEO, OCI, MRCH, GSCT, and AGT.LN
Should you be buying JPMorgan US Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies include BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), Murray Income Trust (MUT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), and AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (LON:JUSC) and BBGI Global Infrastructure (LON:BBGI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
BBGI Global Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BBGI Global Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BBGI Global Infrastructure has a net margin of 86.99% compared to JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' net margin of 75.38%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 4.26% beat BBGI Global Infrastructure's return on equity.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays out 13,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
28.8% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.8% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 20.5% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are held 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.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies received 51 more outperform votes than BBGI Global Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave BBGI Global Infrastructure an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BBGI Global Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BBGI Global Infrastructure and 0 mentions for JPMorgan US Smaller Companies. BBGI Global Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that BBGI Global Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BBGI Global Infrastructure has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BBGI Global Infrastructure beats JPMorgan US Smaller Companies on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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