JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) Competitors

JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

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

39.0% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of AJ Bell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of AJ Bell shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is JLEN or AJB a better dividend stock?

JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AJ Bell pays out 61.4% 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.

Which has better earnings and valuation, JLEN or AJB?

AJ Bell has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AJ Bell, 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
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	-£3.83M	-138.70	-£13.94M	-£0.02	-4,015.00
AJ Bell	£244.77M	8.63	£81.11M	£19.55	26.19

Which has more volatility & risk, JLEN or AJB?

JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is JLEN or AJB more profitable?

AJ Bell has a net margin of 33.14% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 0.00%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 42.30% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	N/A	-1.78%	-1.11%
AJ Bell	33.14%	42.30%	36.07%

Does the media prefer JLEN or AJB?

In the previous week, AJ Bell had 4 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for AJ Bell and 0 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat AJ Bell's score of 0.20 indicating that JLEN Environmental Assets Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	Positive
AJ Bell	Neutral

Do analysts recommend JLEN or AJB?

AJ Bell has a consensus target price of GBX 501, suggesting a potential downside of 2.15%. Given AJ Bell's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than JLEN Environmental Assets Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
AJ Bell	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.20

Summary

AJ Bell beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.