JPMorgan American (JAM) Competitors

JPMorgan American (LON:JAM) and Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and community ranking.

Is JAM or ICP a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan American pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. JPMorgan American pays out 3.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% 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 American is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is JAM or ICP more profitable?

JPMorgan American has a net margin of 97.58% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 56.78%. JPMorgan American's return on equity of 24.87% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan American	97.58%	24.87%	15.33%
Intermediate Capital Group	56.78%	20.09%	4.57%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in JAM or ICP?

53.5% of JPMorgan American shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of JPMorgan American shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer JAM or ICP?

Intermediate Capital Group received 303 more outperform votes than JPMorgan American when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 65.07% of users gave JPMorgan American an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan American	Outperform Votes 95 65.07%	Underperform Votes 51 34.93%
Intermediate Capital Group	Outperform Votes 398 70.44%	Underperform Votes 167 29.56%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, JAM or ICP?

JPMorgan American has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan American, 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 American	£431.16M	4.13	£420.73M	£230.77	4.26
Intermediate Capital Group	£831.60M	0.00	£409.10M	£0.77	N/A

Does the media refer more to JAM or ICP?

In the previous week, JPMorgan American had 1 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JPMorgan American and 0 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. JPMorgan American's average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of -0.95 indicating that JPMorgan American is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan American	Positive
Intermediate Capital Group	Negative

Which has more volatility and risk, JAM or ICP?

JPMorgan American has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

JPMorgan American beats Intermediate Capital Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.