N91 vs. STJ, ICP, SDRC, MNG, SDR, FCIT, HL, PCT, ATST, and ABDN
Should you be buying Ninety One Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ninety One Group include St. James's Place (STJ), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), and abrdn (ABDN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Ninety One Group vs. Its Competitors
Ninety One Group (LON:N91) and St. James's Place (LON:STJ) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
26.8% of Ninety One Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. 58.3% of Ninety One Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, St. James's Place had 1 more articles in the media than Ninety One Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for St. James's Place and 0 mentions for Ninety One Group. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Ninety One Group's score of 0.00 indicating that St. James's Place is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ninety One Group has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ninety One Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ninety One Group pays out 69.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. St. James's Place pays out -1,173.4% 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.
Ninety One Group has a net margin of 26.24% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. Ninety One Group's return on equity of 42.90% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
Ninety One Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 173, indicating a potential downside of 7.86%. St. James's Place has a consensus target price of GBX 843.50, indicating a potential downside of 28.59%. Given Ninety One Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ninety One Group is more favorable than St. James's Place.
Ninety One Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ninety One Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ninety One Group beats St. James's Place on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:N91) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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