JAR vs. MSI, RFX, CGEO, GPH, SUP, AFC, SRAD, FSJ, BEG, and GTLY
Should you be buying Jardine Matheson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jardine Matheson include MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Ramsdens (RFX), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Global Ports (GPH), Supreme (SUP), AFC Energy (AFC), Stelrad Group (SRAD), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), and Gateley (GTLY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
MS INTERNATIONAL (LON:MSI) and Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation and earnings.
In the previous week, MS INTERNATIONAL had 3 more articles in the media than Jardine Matheson. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL and 0 mentions for Jardine Matheson. Jardine Matheson's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat MS INTERNATIONAL's score of -0.08 indicating that MS INTERNATIONAL is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than MS INTERNATIONAL. Jardine Matheson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MS INTERNATIONAL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 226 per share and has a dividend yield of 361.6%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jardine Matheson pays out 9,535.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
MS INTERNATIONAL has a net margin of 7.22% compared to MS INTERNATIONAL's net margin of 1.90%. Jardine Matheson's return on equity of 17.09% beat MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity.
10.1% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.6% of Jardine Matheson shares are held by institutional investors. 67.0% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of Jardine Matheson shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Jardine Matheson received 14 more outperform votes than MS INTERNATIONAL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave MS INTERNATIONAL an outperform vote while only 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote.
Summary
MS INTERNATIONAL beats Jardine Matheson on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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