JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI) Competitors

JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (LON:JSGI) and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (LON:SLS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, JSGI or SLS?

JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Japan Small Cap 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 Japan Small Cap Growth & Income	£10.36M	17.33	£9.17M	£0.17	1,958.82
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	£222.48M	3.22	N/A	£217.40	3.37

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in JSGI or SLS?

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust received 80 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income	N/A	N/A
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	Outperform Votes 80 66.12%	Underperform Votes 41 33.88%

Is JSGI or SLS a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income pays out 8,235.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do analysts recommend JSGI or SLS?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in JSGI or SLS?

59.2% of JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is JSGI or SLS more profitable?

JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income has a net margin of 88.53% compared to Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's net margin of 0.00%. JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income's return on equity of 4.67% beat Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income	88.53%	4.67%	2.33%
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to JSGI or SLS?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income	Neutral
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust	Neutral

Summary

JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income beats Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.