Fidelity Asian Values (FAS) Competitors

JTC (LON:JTC) and Fidelity Asian Values (LON:FAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and valuation.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor JTC or FAS?

Fidelity Asian Values received 42 more outperform votes than JTC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.96% of users gave JTC an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Fidelity Asian Values an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JTC	Outperform Votes 71 73.96%	Underperform Votes 25 26.04%
Fidelity Asian Values	Outperform Votes 113 62.09%	Underperform Votes 69 37.91%

Do institutionals and insiders believe in JTC or FAS?

74.1% of JTC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.4% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of JTC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts rate JTC or FAS?

JTC presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,400, suggesting a potential upside of 70.11%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe JTC is more favorable than Fidelity Asian Values.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Fidelity Asian Values	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is JTC or FAS a better dividend stock?

JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Fidelity Asian Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. JTC pays out 67.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity Asian Values pays out 91.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is JTC or FAS more profitable?

Fidelity Asian Values has a net margin of 50.86% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. JTC's return on equity of 5.70% beat Fidelity Asian Values' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JTC	10.29%	5.70%	4.96%
Fidelity Asian Values	50.86%	3.04%	0.25%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, JTC or FAS?

JTC has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity Asian Values. Fidelity Asian Values is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JTC	£291.42M	4.75	£29.99M	£17.83	46.16
Fidelity Asian Values	£22.46M	16.24	£11.42M	£16.38	32.00

Which has more risk & volatility, JTC or FAS?

JTC has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity Asian Values has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor JTC or FAS?

In the previous week, JTC and JTC both had 1 articles in the media. Fidelity Asian Values' average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat JTC's score of 0.42 indicating that Fidelity Asian Values is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
JTC	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Fidelity Asian Values	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

JTC beats Fidelity Asian Values on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.