JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI) Competitors

JPMorgan European Growth & Income (LON:JEGI) and JTC (LON:JTC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and profitability.

Is JEGI or JTC more profitable?

JPMorgan European Growth & Income has a net margin of 93.04% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. JPMorgan European Growth & Income's return on equity of 15.32% beat JTC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan European Growth & Income	93.04%	15.32%	9.07%
JTC	10.29%	6.00%	4.96%

Is JEGI or JTC a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan European Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share. JPMorgan European Growth & Income pays out 2,941.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JTC pays out 6,666.7% 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 European Growth & Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in JEGI or JTC?

JTC received 69 more outperform votes than JPMorgan European Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan European Growth & Income	N/A	N/A
JTC	Outperform Votes 69 73.40%	Underperform Votes 25 26.60%

Do analysts recommend JEGI or JTC?

JTC has a consensus target price of GBX 1,250, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe JTC is more favorable than JPMorgan European Growth & Income.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JPMorgan European Growth & Income	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of JEGI or JTC?

45.0% of JPMorgan European Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of JTC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan European Growth & Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of JTC shares are held 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, JEGI or JTC?

JPMorgan European Growth & Income has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JTC has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, JEGI or JTC?

JPMorgan European Growth & Income has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JTC. JTC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan European Growth & Income, 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 European Growth & Income	£79.51M	5.19	£73.98M	£0.17	567.06
JTC	£283.06M	0.00	£29.12M	£0.18	N/A

Does the media prefer JEGI or JTC?

In the previous week, JTC had 1 more articles in the media than JPMorgan European Growth & Income. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for JTC and 1 mentions for JPMorgan European Growth & Income. JPMorgan European Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat JTC's score of 0.37 indicating that JPMorgan European Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan European Growth & Income	Positive
JTC	Neutral

Summary

JTC beats JPMorgan European Growth & Income on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.