JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH) Competitors

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) and JPMorgan Claverhouse (LON:JCH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Is PNL or JCH a better dividend stock?

Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. JPMorgan Claverhouse pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Personal Assets pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Claverhouse pays out 33.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Does the media prefer PNL or JCH?

In the previous week, Personal Assets had 4 more articles in the media than JPMorgan Claverhouse. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Personal Assets and 1 mentions for JPMorgan Claverhouse. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat JPMorgan Claverhouse's score of 0.67 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Personal Assets	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
JPMorgan Claverhouse	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is PNL or JCH more profitable?

Personal Assets has a net margin of 116.31% compared to JPMorgan Claverhouse's net margin of 92.61%. JPMorgan Claverhouse's return on equity of 14.30% beat Personal Assets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Personal Assets	116.31%	7.96%	1.96%
JPMorgan Claverhouse	92.61%	14.30%	8.21%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of PNL or JCH?

46.0% of Personal Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.8% of JPMorgan Claverhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.4% of JPMorgan Claverhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PNL or JCH?

Personal Assets received 42 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Claverhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave JPMorgan Claverhouse an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Personal Assets	Outperform Votes 108 61.02%	Underperform Votes 69 38.98%
JPMorgan Claverhouse	Outperform Votes 66 64.71%	Underperform Votes 36 35.29%

Which has more volatility & risk, PNL or JCH?

Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Claverhouse has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, PNL or JCH?

Personal Assets has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Claverhouse. JPMorgan Claverhouse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, 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
Personal Assets	£107.31M	15.24	£124.81M	£39.23	13.07
JPMorgan Claverhouse	£62.40M	6.68	£57.79M	£103.90	7.22

Summary

Personal Assets beats JPMorgan Claverhouse on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.