Northern 3 VCT (NTN) Competitors

Northern 3 VCT (LON:NTN) and JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer NTN or JLEN?

JLEN Environmental Assets Group received 19 more outperform votes than Northern 3 VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.26% of users gave Northern 3 VCT an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave JLEN Environmental Assets Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Northern 3 VCT	Outperform Votes 62 65.26%	Underperform Votes 33 34.74%
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	Outperform Votes 81 62.79%	Underperform Votes 48 37.21%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of NTN or JLEN?

39.0% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Northern 3 VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, NTN or JLEN?

Northern 3 VCT has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Northern 3 VCT, 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
Northern 3 VCT	£3.13M	39.13	£1.65M	£1.13	74.15
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	-£3.83M	-125.57	-£13.94M	-£0.02	-3,635.00

Is NTN or JLEN more profitable?

Northern 3 VCT has a net margin of 52.77% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 0.00%. Northern 3 VCT's return on equity of 2.55% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Northern 3 VCT	52.77%	2.55%	1.71%
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	N/A	-1.78%	-1.11%

Which has more volatility and risk, NTN or JLEN?

Northern 3 VCT has a beta of 0.16, indicating that its stock price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor NTN or JLEN?

In the previous week, Northern 3 VCT had 1 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Northern 3 VCT and 0 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. Northern 3 VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Northern 3 VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Northern 3 VCT	Neutral
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	Neutral

Is NTN or JLEN a better dividend stock?

Northern 3 VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Northern 3 VCT pays out 441.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Northern 3 VCT beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.