ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW) Competitors

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LON:LBOW) and JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash (LON:JPEC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, LBOW or JPEC?

JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash has lower revenue, but higher earnings than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash, 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
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	£4.33M	6.43	-£24.46M	-£20.86	-1.12
JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash	N/A	N/A	N/A	£0.75	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in LBOW or JPEC?

73.6% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 20.7% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to LBOW or JPEC?

In the previous week, ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Neutral
JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash	Neutral

Is LBOW or JPEC more profitable?

JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash has a net margin of 0.00% compared to ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' net margin of -564.92%. JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash's return on equity of 0.00% beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	-564.92%	-43.80%	N/A
JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LBOW or JPEC?

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments received 51 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.57% of users gave JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Outperform Votes 75 63.56%	Underperform Votes 43 36.44%
JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash	Outperform Votes 24 68.57%	Underperform Votes 11 31.43%

Is LBOW or JPEC a better dividend stock?

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.1%. JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash pays an annual dividend of GBX 0 per share. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays out -19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash pays out 0.4% 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. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments beats JPMorgan Elect plc ­- Managed Cash on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.