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Fidelity Japan Trust (FJV) Competitors

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GBX 189 -1.00 (-0.53%)
As of 07/4/2025

FJV vs. MUT, SLPE, TFIF, MRCH, ESCT, NBPE, AGT.LN, SDP, JESC, and GSCT

Should you be buying Fidelity Japan Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity Japan Trust include Murray Income Trust (MUT), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), and The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Fidelity Japan Trust vs. Its Competitors

Murray Income Trust (LON:MUT) and Fidelity Japan Trust (LON:FJV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.

Murray Income Trust has a net margin of 92.34% compared to Fidelity Japan Trust's net margin of 71.01%. Murray Income Trust's return on equity of 9.57% beat Fidelity Japan Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Murray Income Trust92.34% 9.57% 4.65%
Fidelity Japan Trust 71.01%2.73%1.92%

Murray Income Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity Japan Trust has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Fidelity Japan Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Murray Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fidelity Japan Trust and 1 mentions for Murray Income Trust. Fidelity Japan Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Murray Income Trust's score of 0.51 indicating that Fidelity Japan Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Murray Income Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Fidelity Japan Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Murray Income Trust£97.96M8.89£90.45M£90.769.61
Fidelity Japan Trust£8.79M24.42£6.24M£5.5434.11

35.0% of Murray Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of Fidelity Japan Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Murray Income Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Fidelity Japan Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Murray Income Trust beats Fidelity Japan Trust on 8 of the 13 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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FJV vs. The Competition

MetricFidelity Japan TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£214.72M£1.25B£6.44B£2.96B
Dividend YieldN/A4.36%4.17%5.02%
P/E Ratio34.1121.8113.50147.88
Price / Sales24.422,406.261,784.55258,917.23
Price / Cash247.5560.8148.8627.97
Price / Book0.981.211.404.61
Net Income£6.24M£264.68M£1.25B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.56%0.37%0.56%1.04%
1 Month Performance-0.26%2.72%3.27%5.12%
1 Year Performance8.93%6.53%15.39%80.82%

Fidelity Japan Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FJV
Fidelity Japan Trust
N/AGBX 189
-0.5%
N/A+9.8%£214.72M£8.79M34.11N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 862
+1.2%
N/A+1.0%£861.21M£97.96M9.50147,000News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Cut
SLPE
Standard Life Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 558
-0.5%
N/A+8.4%£857.90M£251.60M3.60N/A
TFIF
TwentyFour Income
N/AGBX 113.10
+0.3%
N/A+6.6%£846.58M£55.96M0.98N/ANews Coverage
MRCH
The Merchants Trust
N/AGBX 568.14
+0.9%
N/A-0.8%£845.00M£119.93M7.76N/APositive News
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 210.50
-0.2%
N/A+15.7%£830.29M£96.24M9.92305
NBPE
NB Private Equity Partners
N/AGBX 1,427.33
-0.2%
N/A-11.9%£827.86M£12.90M-37.44N/A
AGT.LN
AVI Global Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£812.93M£51.62M20.82N/AHigh Trading Volume
SDP
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund
N/AGBX 565.75
+0.7%
N/A+4.3%£799.22M£134.70M6.60N/A
JESC
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£795.72M£114.05M7.60N/A
GSCT
The Global Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 161.16
-0.5%
N/A+0.5%£774.72M£70.77M1.30N/APositive News
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This page (LON:FJV) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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