HRI vs. JMG, SLPE, OCI, JII, SOI, FGT, BSIF, DGN, POLR, and RSE
Should you be buying Herald Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Herald Investment Trust include JPMorgan Emerging Markets Investment Trust (JMG), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Schroder Oriental Income Fund (SOI), Finsbury Growth & Income Trust (FGT), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Asia Dragon Trust (DGN), Polar Capital (POLR), and Riverstone Energy (RSE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) and Herald Investment Trust (LON:HRI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
In the previous week, Herald Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than JPMorgan Emerging Markets. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Herald Investment Trust and 2 mentions for JPMorgan Emerging Markets. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Herald Investment Trust's score of 1.13 indicating that Herald Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Herald Investment Trust has a net margin of 75.97% compared to Herald Investment Trust's net margin of 50.31%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity of 3.77% beat Herald Investment Trust's return on equity.
Herald Investment Trust received 25 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Emerging Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.73% of users gave JPMorgan Emerging Markets an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Herald Investment Trust an outperform vote.
JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald Investment Trust has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
42.3% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of Herald Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Herald Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Herald Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Emerging Markets. Herald Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Emerging Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Herald Investment Trust beats JPMorgan Emerging Markets on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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