JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) Competitors

Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of CLDN or JLEN?

11.9% of Caledonia Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.0% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.2% of Caledonia Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CLDN or JLEN?

Caledonia Investments received 61 more outperform votes than JLEN Environmental Assets Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.79% of users gave JLEN Environmental Assets Group an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Caledonia Investments an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Caledonia Investments	Outperform Votes 142 60.94%	Underperform Votes 91 39.06%
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	Outperform Votes 81 62.79%	Underperform Votes 48 37.21%

Is CLDN or JLEN a better dividend stock?

Caledonia Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 70 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Caledonia Investments pays out 18.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out -40,000.0% 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. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to CLDN or JLEN?

In the previous week, Caledonia Investments had 2 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Caledonia Investments and 1 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. Caledonia Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.83 indicating that Caledonia Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Caledonia Investments	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CLDN or JLEN more profitable?

Caledonia Investments has a net margin of 86.28% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 0.00%. Caledonia Investments' return on equity of 6.98% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Caledonia Investments	86.28%	6.98%	4.23%
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	N/A	-1.78%	-1.11%

Which has higher earnings & valuation, CLDN or JLEN?

Caledonia Investments has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caledonia Investments, 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
Caledonia Investments	£231.70M	8.43	£199.92M	£374.36	9.78
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	-£3.83M	-128.85	-£13.94M	-£0.02	-3,730.00

Which has more risk & volatility, CLDN or JLEN?

Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Caledonia Investments beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.