JUSC vs. JEO, APEO, SLPE, SAIN, NBPE, TMPL, MUT, AGT.LN, TFIF, and MRCH
Should you be buying JPMorgan US Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies include European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), Temple Bar (TMPL), Murray Income Trust (MUT), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), and The Merchants Trust (MRCH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies vs.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (LON:JUSC) and European Opportunities Trust (LON:JEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
European Opportunities Trust received 8 more outperform votes than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.13% of users gave European Opportunities Trust an outperform vote while only 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies an outperform vote.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a net margin of 71.91% compared to European Opportunities Trust's net margin of 0.00%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 4.45% beat European Opportunities Trust's return on equity.
27.1% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies 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.
In the previous week, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled European Opportunities Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has higher revenue and earnings than European Opportunities Trust. European Opportunities Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. European Opportunities Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. European Opportunities Trust pays out -0.1% 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.
Summary
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies beats European Opportunities Trust on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:JUSC) was last updated on 5/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
