SEC vs. JZCP, JSGI, HANA, BERI, OIG, UAV, AUGM, FTF, IGC, and CLIG
Should you be buying Strategic Equity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Equity Capital include JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Hansa Investment (HANA), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), India Capital Growth (IGC), and City of London Investment Group (CLIG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) and JZ Capital Partners (LON:JZCP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital had 7 more articles in the media than JZ Capital Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Strategic Equity Capital and 0 mentions for JZ Capital Partners. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat JZ Capital Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. JZ Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 576.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JZ Capital Partners pays out -7,812.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JZ Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Strategic Equity Capital has higher revenue and earnings than JZ Capital Partners. JZ Capital Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Equity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Strategic Equity Capital received 38 more outperform votes than JZ Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.00% of users gave Strategic Equity Capital an outperform vote while only 62.75% of users gave JZ Capital Partners an outperform vote.
62.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 91.84% compared to JZ Capital Partners' net margin of 0.00%. Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity of 17.10% beat JZ Capital Partners' return on equity.
Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JZ Capital Partners has a beta of 0.25, meaning that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Strategic Equity Capital beats JZ Capital Partners on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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