MSI vs. JAR, RFX, FSJ, AFC, SUP, AVG, PPHC, ECEL, CGS, and AA4
Should you be buying MS INTERNATIONAL stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MS INTERNATIONAL include Jardine Matheson (JAR), Ramsdens (RFX), James Fisher and Sons (FSJ), AFC Energy (AFC), Supreme (SUP), Avingtrans (AVG), Public Policy (PPHC), Eurocell (ECEL), Castings (CGS), and Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Jardine Matheson (LON:JAR) and MS INTERNATIONAL (LON:MSI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
18.7% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.1% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.9% of Jardine Matheson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 68.5% of MS INTERNATIONAL shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MS INTERNATIONAL has a net margin of 7.22% compared to MS INTERNATIONAL's net margin of 1.90%. Jardine Matheson's return on equity of 17.09% beat MS INTERNATIONAL's return on equity.
Jardine Matheson pays an annual dividend of GBX 226 per share and has a dividend yield of 361.6%. MS INTERNATIONAL pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Jardine Matheson pays out 13,294.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MS INTERNATIONAL pays out 3,809.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Jardine Matheson has higher revenue and earnings than MS INTERNATIONAL. Jardine Matheson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MS INTERNATIONAL, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Jardine Matheson had 4 more articles in the media than MS INTERNATIONAL. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Jardine Matheson and 4 mentions for MS INTERNATIONAL. MS INTERNATIONAL's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Jardine Matheson's score of 0.22 indicating that Jardine Matheson is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Jardine Matheson received 14 more outperform votes than MS INTERNATIONAL when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.52% of users gave MS INTERNATIONAL an outperform vote while only 64.75% of users gave Jardine Matheson an outperform vote.
Jardine Matheson has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MS INTERNATIONAL has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Jardine Matheson beats MS INTERNATIONAL on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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