JUSC vs. RICA, CGT, TMPL, JEO, SAIN, APEO, SLPE, OCI, ICGT, and MUT
Should you be buying JPMorgan US Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies vs. Its Competitors
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (LON:JUSC) 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 risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
In the previous week, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies had 2 more articles in the media than Ruffer Investment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for JPMorgan US Smaller Companies and 1 mentions for Ruffer Investment. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Ruffer Investment's score of 0.67 indicating that JPMorgan US Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ruffer Investment. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a net margin of 71.91% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 51.94%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 4.45% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.
Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% 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 US Smaller Companies pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are held by 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.
Ruffer Investment has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ruffer Investment received 2 more outperform votes than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.
Summary
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies beats Ruffer Investment on 11 of the 17 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 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
