CGL vs. JUSC, ASLI, IBT, MNL, MTE, BGUK, CCJI, RECI, HHI, and BGHS
Should you be buying Castelnau Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Castelnau Group include JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (JUSC), abrdn European Logistics Income (ASLI), International Biotechnology (IBT), Manchester & London (MNL), Montanaro European Smaller (MTE), Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (BGUK), CC Japan Income & Growth Trust (CCJI), Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI), Henderson High Income (HHI), and Boussard & Gavaudan GBP (BGHS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Castelnau Group (LON:CGL) and JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust (LON:JUSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
Castelnau Group has a beta of 0.11, indicating that its share price is 89% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Castelnau Group. Castelnau Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
71.4% of Castelnau Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of Castelnau Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust has a net margin of 75.38% compared to Castelnau Group's net margin of 0.00%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust's return on equity of 4.26% beat Castelnau Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Castelnau Group and Castelnau Group both had 1 articles in the media. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Castelnau Group's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Castelnau Group and JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust both received 95 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 42.04% of users gave Castelnau Group an outperform vote.
Summary
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust beats Castelnau Group on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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