JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI) Competitors

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) and JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (LON:JAGI) 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 risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in JMG or JAGI?

48.5% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.9% of JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.3% of JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk & volatility, JMG or JAGI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate JMG or JAGI?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media prefer JMG or JAGI?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Emerging Markets had 5 more articles in the media than JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for JPMorgan Emerging Markets and 0 mentions for JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan Emerging Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Neutral
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	Neutral

Is JMG or JAGI more profitable?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a net margin of 50.31% compared to JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's net margin of -171.38%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity of 1.67% beat JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	50.31%	1.67%	1.55%
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	-171.38%	-0.55%	-0.23%

Which has better valuation & earnings, JMG or JAGI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	£45.04M	26.74	£22.66M	£0.02	5,473.55
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	£1.27M	238.70	-£2.18M	-£0.05	-7,486.00

Does the MarketBeat Community favor JMG or JAGI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets received 78 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Outperform Votes 78 75.73%	Underperform Votes 25 24.27%
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	N/A	N/A

Is JMG or JAGI a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income pays out -32,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

JPMorgan Emerging Markets beats JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.