STJ vs. JGGI, ABDN, RCP, TRIG, MNKS, HICL, EMG, BUR, INPP, and 3IN
Should you be buying St. James's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. James's Place include JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), abrdn (ABDN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG), Monks (MNKS), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), Man Group (EMG), Burford Capital (BUR), International Public Partnerships (INPP), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (LON:JGGI) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income has lower revenue, but higher earnings than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Global Growth & Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.2, meaning that its share price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Global Growth & Income has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. JPMorgan Global Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. St. James's Place pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Global Growth & Income pays out 2,069.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
78.9% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of JPMorgan Global Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of JPMorgan Global Growth & Income shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, JPMorgan Global Growth & Income had 1 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for JPMorgan Global Growth & Income and 1 mentions for St. James's Place. JPMorgan Global Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.38 indicating that JPMorgan Global Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
St. James's Place presently has a consensus target price of GBX 646.75, indicating a potential upside of 34.91%. Given St. James' Place's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than JPMorgan Global Growth & Income.
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income has a net margin of 93.49% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.05%. JPMorgan Global Growth & Income's return on equity of 17.44% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
St. James's Place received 737 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Global Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.74% of users gave St. James's Place an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave JPMorgan Global Growth & Income an outperform vote.
Summary
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income beats St. James's Place on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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