HSL vs. JLEN, EOT, USA, PHI, BUT, FEML, IPX, EWI, THRG, and GCP
Should you be buying Henderson Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson Smaller Companies include JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Brunner (BUT), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), and GCP Infrastructure Investment (GCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a consensus target price of GBX 126, suggesting a potential upside of 36.81%. Given JLEN Environmental Assets Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JLEN Environmental Assets Group is more favorable than Henderson Smaller Companies.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a net margin of 90.64% compared to Henderson Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity of 12.46% beat Henderson Smaller Companies' return on equity.
27.8% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.9% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.3% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Henderson Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Henderson Smaller Companies pays out -3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out 5,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Henderson Smaller Companies and JLEN Environmental Assets Group both received 81 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 68.64% of users gave Henderson Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave JLEN Environmental Assets Group an outperform vote.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Smaller Companies. Henderson Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JLEN Environmental Assets Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Henderson Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Henderson Smaller Companies and 1 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. Henderson Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.36 indicating that Henderson Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Henderson Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
JLEN Environmental Assets Group beats Henderson Smaller Companies on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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