Lowland (LWI) Competitors

Lowland (LON:LWI) and JTC (LON:JTC) 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 profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Do analysts rate LWI or JTC?

JTC has a consensus target price of GBX 1,400, suggesting a potential upside of 64.90%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe JTC is more favorable than Lowland.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lowland	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, LWI or JTC?

Lowland has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JTC. Lowland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, 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
Lowland	£58.88M	6.30	£54.35M	£21.31	6.83
JTC	£291.42M	4.90	£29.99M	£17.83	47.61

Do insiders & institutionals believe in LWI or JTC?

11.7% of Lowland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of JTC shares are held by institutional investors. 3.2% of Lowland shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of JTC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is LWI or JTC a better dividend stock?

Lowland pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Lowland pays out 28.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JTC pays out 67.3% 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. Lowland is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is LWI or JTC more profitable?

Lowland has a net margin of 92.30% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. Lowland's return on equity of 15.19% beat JTC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lowland	92.30%	15.19%	4.63%
JTC	10.29%	5.70%	4.96%

Which has more risk & volatility, LWI or JTC?

Lowland has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JTC has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LWI or JTC?

Lowland received 43 more outperform votes than JTC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.96% of users gave JTC an outperform vote while only 65.52% of users gave Lowland an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Lowland	Outperform Votes 114 65.52%	Underperform Votes 60 34.48%
JTC	Outperform Votes 71 73.96%	Underperform Votes 25 26.04%

Does the media favor LWI or JTC?

In the previous week, JTC had 1 more articles in the media than Lowland. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JTC and 0 mentions for Lowland. JTC's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Lowland's score of 0.00 indicating that JTC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Lowland	Neutral
JTC	Neutral

Summary

JTC beats Lowland on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.