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Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU) Competitors

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As of 09/15/2025 12:32 PM Eastern

MTU vs. JLEN, CGI, NAS, OAP3, PINT, ATR, ESCT, JII, JPGI, and AIE

Should you be buying Montanaro UK Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies include JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Canadian General Investments (CGI), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), and Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies vs. Its Competitors

JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) and Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (LON:MTU) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Montanaro UK Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JLEN Environmental Assets Group-£12.30M-40.51-£13.94M-£0.02-3,590.48
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies-£13.16M-9.62£26.33M-£0.08-1,179.10

JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out -355.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies pays out -64.5% 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. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies has a net margin of 91.45% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 0.00%. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' return on equity of 13.16% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JLEN Environmental Assets GroupN/A -1.78% -1.11%
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies 91.45%13.16%5.77%

In the previous week, Montanaro UK Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Montanaro UK Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. Montanaro UK Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Montanaro UK Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
JLEN Environmental Assets Group Neutral
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Positive

46.8% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.4% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Montanaro UK Smaller Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 10 of the 15 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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MTU vs. The Competition

MetricMontanaro UK Smaller CompaniesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£126.62M£1.45B£6.42B£2.58B
Dividend Yield6.39%4.59%4.31%5.30%
P/E Ratio-1,179.104,744.741,773.825,404.14
Price / Sales-9.621,957.931,352.6896,701.95
Price / Cash16.2060.6248.9927.93
Price / Book0.821.372.078.78
Net Income£26.33M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance0.36%0.52%1.07%0.56%
1 Month Performance0.49%1.39%1.78%44.71%
1 Year Performance-4.54%8.76%32.11%174.03%

Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTU
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 99.28
+0.7%
N/A-4.5%£126.62M-£13.16M-1,179.10N/APositive News
JLEN
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
N/AGBX 75.80
+0.7%
N/A-21.2%£500.68M-£12.30M-3,609.52N/A
CGI
Canadian General Investments
N/AGBX 2,360
+0.2%
N/A+12.2%£492.32M£191.19M264.57N/A
NAS
North Atlantic Smaller Cos
N/AGBX 370
-0.5%
N/A-90.4%£486.37M£43.28M1,175.87N/A
OAP3
Octopus Apollo VCT
N/AGBX 46.50
flat
N/AN/A£486.20M£27.67M1,660.71N/ANews Coverage
Negative News
PINT
Pantheon Infrastructure
N/AGBX 103.50
-0.5%
N/A+28.3%£485.03M£77.28M673.39N/A
ATR
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv.
N/AGBX 518
+0.8%
N/A+12.2%£484.45M£58.52M888.2013,500News Coverage
Earnings Report
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 210
-0.5%
N/A+22.5%£477.78M-£5.61M-9,767.44305High Trading Volume
JII
JPMorgan Indian
N/AGBX 1,046
+0.6%
N/A+2.8%£477.31M£29.88M5,473.57N/A
JPGI
Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AN/AN/AN/A£472.52M£93.27M5.01N/AHigh Trading Volume
AIE
Ashoka India Equity Investment
N/AGBX 268
-0.2%
N/A-7.8%£459.60M£110.29M439.63N/APositive News

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