MNKS vs. STJ, JGGI, ABDN, INPP, HICL, PHLL, IIG, SSON, BUR, and HGT
Should you be buying Monks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Monks include St. James's Place (STJ), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), abrdn (ABDN), International Public Partnerships (INPP), HICL Infrastructure (HICL), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Intuitive Investments Group (IIG), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), Burford Capital (BUR), and HgCapital Trust (HGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Monks (LON:MNKS) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings and risk.
St. James's Place has a net margin of -0.05% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -3.97%. St. James' Place's return on equity of -0.03% beat Monks' return on equity.
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, Monks has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
77.8% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.4% of Monks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of St. James's Place shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Monks shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Monks pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. St. James's Place pays out -120,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Monks pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Monks had 13 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Monks and 14 mentions for St. James's Place. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Monks' score of 0.15 indicating that Monks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
St. James's Place presently has a consensus target price of GBX 646.75, suggesting a potential upside of 44.49%. Given Monks' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Monks.
St. James's Place has higher revenue and earnings than Monks. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Monks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. James's Place received 653 more outperform votes than Monks when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.74% of users gave St. James's Place an outperform vote while only 64.18% of users gave Monks an outperform vote.
Summary
St. James's Place beats Monks on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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