AJB vs. STJ, ICP, MNG, SDRC, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, ATST, and ABDN
Should you be buying AJ Bell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AJ Bell include St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDRC), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AJ Bell vs. Its Competitors
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
St. James's Place currently has a consensus price target of GBX 843.50, indicating a potential downside of 28.02%. AJ Bell has a consensus price target of GBX 455, indicating a potential downside of 12.42%. Given AJ Bell's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than St. James's Place.
In the previous week, St. James's Place and St. James's Place both had 1 articles in the media. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat AJ Bell's score of 0.25 indicating that St. James's Place is being referred to more favorably in the media.
79.6% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of AJ Bell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of AJ Bell 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.
AJ Bell has a net margin of 33.14% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 42.30% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
AJ Bell 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 AJ Bell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. St. James's Place pays out -1,173.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AJ Bell pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
AJ Bell beats St. James's Place on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:AJB) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
