JAR vs. MSI, RFX, CGEO, HSP, SOM, SAG, SFR, BEG, NXR, and GTLY
Should you be buying Jardine Matheson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Jardine Matheson include MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Ramsdens (RFX), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Hargreaves Services (HSP), Somero Enterprises (SOM), Science Group (SAG), Severfield (SFR), Begbies Traynor Group (BEG), Norcros (NXR), and Gateley (GTLY). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
MS INTERNATIONAL (LON:MSI) and Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
Jardine Matheson received 14 more outperform votes than MS INTERNATIONAL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave MS INTERNATIONAL an outperform vote while only 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote.
11.1% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.7% of Jardine Matheson shares are held by institutional investors. 68.5% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.9% of Jardine Matheson shares are held 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.
MS INTERNATIONAL has a beta of 0.03, suggesting that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jardine Matheson has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MS INTERNATIONAL has a net margin of 7.22% compared to MS INTERNATIONAL's net margin of 1.90%. Jardine Matheson's return on equity of 17.09% beat MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity.
In the previous week, MS INTERNATIONAL had 1 more articles in the media than Jardine Matheson. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL and 2 mentions for Jardine Matheson. MS INTERNATIONAL's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Jardine Matheson's score of 0.00 indicating that Jardine Matheson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 226 per share and has a dividend yield of 361.6%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Jardine Matheson pays out 13,294.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than MS INTERNATIONAL. Jardine Matheson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MS INTERNATIONAL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
MS INTERNATIONAL beats Jardine Matheson on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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