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GBX 519.50 +7.04 (+1.37%)
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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
St. James's Place
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
AJ Bell
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.25

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
St. James's Place
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
AJ Bell
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
St. James's Place-0.02% -0.63% 0.22%
AJ Bell 33.14%42.30%36.07%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
St. James's Place£26.27B0.24-£6.46M-£1.19-982.22
AJ Bell£244.77M8.75£81.11M£19.5526.57

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

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AJB vs. The Competition

MetricAJ BellAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.14B£1.24B£6.27B£2.96B
Dividend Yield2.88%4.37%4.18%5.02%
P/E Ratio26.5722.0113.26147.41
Price / Sales8.752,407.541,770.20240,143.56
Price / Cash17.5660.8149.5627.97
Price / Book10.531.221.914.55
Net Income£81.11M£264.68M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance1.66%0.30%0.50%1.27%
1 Month Performance6.19%2.65%3.06%4.62%
1 Year Performance30.36%6.25%15.68%82.58%

AJ Bell Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJB
AJ Bell
0.7471 of 5 stars
GBX 519.50
+1.4%
GBX 455
-12.4%
+28.1%£2.14B£244.77M26.571,373Dividend Increase
STJ
St. James's Place
0.8409 of 5 stars
GBX 1,181.16
+1.7%
GBX 843.50
-28.6%
+105.7%£6.39B£26.27B-989.982,298
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
MNG
M&G
0.3343 of 5 stars
GBX 257.10
+1.5%
GBX 223.33
-13.1%
+22.6%£6.12B£9.02B36.666,101
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
SDR
Schroders
1.6237 of 5 stars
GBX 371
+2.2%
GBX 392.25
+5.7%
-4.9%£5.76B£2.78B16.206,438Analyst Forecast
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,124
+0.2%
N/A+10.6%£5.43B£981.19M5.82N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
2.0996 of 5 stars
N/AGBX 684
+∞
N/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 367.50
+0.7%
N/A-89.2%£4.33B£1.24B3.61120Positive News
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
ABDN
abrdn
1.1622 of 5 stars
GBX 190.80
+2.1%
GBX 172
-9.9%
+17.4%£3.42B£1.49B10.854,719News Coverage
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This page (LON:AJB) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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