JAR vs. HLMA, CGEO, MSI, JARB, RFX, FIH, STRL, VCBC, BASK, and PHSC
Should you be buying Jardine Matheson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jardine Matheson include Halma (HLMA), Georgia Capital (CGEO), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Jardine Matheson (JARB), Ramsdens (RFX), FIH group (FIH), Stirling Industries (STRL), Vertu Capital (VCBC), Baskerville Capital (BASK), and PHSC (PHSC). These companies are all part of the "conglomerates" industry.
Jardine Matheson vs.
Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) and Halma (LON:HLMA) are both large-cap industrials 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.
Jardine Matheson has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Halma has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
19.0% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.6% of Halma shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.4% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Halma 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.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than Halma. Halma is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jardine Matheson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Jardine Matheson and Jardine Matheson both had 1 articles in the media. Halma's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Jardine Matheson's score of -0.28 indicating that Halma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 225 per share and has a dividend yield of 360.0%. Halma pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Jardine Matheson pays out 51,420.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Halma pays out 30.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Halma received 324 more outperform votes than Jardine Matheson when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Halma an outperform vote.
Halma has a net margin of 13.21% compared to Jardine Matheson's net margin of 0.23%. Halma's return on equity of 15.87% beat Jardine Matheson's return on equity.
Halma has a consensus target price of GBX 2,566.67, suggesting a potential downside of 9.56%. Given Halma's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Halma is more favorable than Jardine Matheson.
Summary
Halma beats Jardine Matheson on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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This page (LON:JAR) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
