AJB vs. SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, 3IN, EMG, and STJ
Should you be buying AJ Bell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AJ Bell include Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), and St. James's Place (STJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AJ Bell (LON:AJB) and Schroders (LON:SDRC) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
AJ Bell has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Schroders. Schroders is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AJ Bell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
49.8% of AJ Bell shares are held by institutional investors. 30.6% of AJ Bell 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, Schroders had 1 more articles in the media than AJ Bell. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Schroders and 1 mentions for AJ Bell. Schroders' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat AJ Bell's score of 0.00 indicating that Schroders is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AJ Bell has a net margin of 33.20% compared to Schroders' net margin of 0.00%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 49.62% beat Schroders' return on equity.
Schroders received 98 more outperform votes than AJ Bell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.68% of users gave Schroders an outperform vote while only 43.02% of users gave AJ Bell an outperform vote.
AJ Bell presently has a consensus price target of GBX 357, suggesting a potential downside of 5.18%. Given AJ Bell's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than Schroders.
AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Schroders pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. AJ Bell pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Schroders pays out 60.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
AJ Bell beats Schroders on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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