Ninety One Group (N91) Competitors

Ninety One Group (LON:N91) and St. James's Place (LON:STJ) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer N91 or STJ?

Ninety One Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 173, suggesting a potential upside of 3.53%. St. James's Place has a consensus target price of GBX 784.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.80%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Ninety One Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ninety One Group	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
St. James's Place	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80

Is N91 or STJ more profitable?

Ninety One Group has a net margin of 27.85% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.03%. Ninety One Group's return on equity of 45.69% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ninety One Group	27.85%	45.69%	1.15%
St. James's Place	-0.03%	-0.55%	0.22%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of N91 or STJ?

26.8% of Ninety One Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of St. James's Place shares are held by institutional investors. 58.3% of Ninety One Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is N91 or STJ a better dividend stock?

Ninety One Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Ninety One Group pays out 6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. St. James's Place pays out -140,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer N91 or STJ?

St. James's Place received 741 more outperform votes than Ninety One Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.77% of users gave St. James's Place an outperform vote while only 13.33% of users gave Ninety One Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Ninety One Group	Outperform Votes 2 13.33%	Underperform Votes 13 86.67%
St. James's Place	Outperform Votes 743 72.77%	Underperform Votes 278 27.23%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, N91 or STJ?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ninety One Group	£588.50M	1.71	£163.90M	£0.18	928.33
St. James's Place	£26.80B	0.15	-£6.60M	-£0.01	-72,750.00

Does the media favor N91 or STJ?

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 0.25 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.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Ninety One Group	Neutral
St. James's Place	Neutral

Which has more risk & volatility, N91 or STJ?

Ninety One Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

St. James's Place beats Ninety One Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.