Sabre Insurance Group (SBRE) Competitors

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (LON:JLT) and Sabre Insurance Group (LON:SBRE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, JLT or SBRE?

Sabre Insurance Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group. Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sabre Insurance 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
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group	£1.45B	0.00	N/A	£19.60	N/A
Sabre Insurance Group	£229.51M	1.37	£29.43M	£11.85	10.61

Is JLT or SBRE a better dividend stock?

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.34 per share. Sabre Insurance Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group pays out 1.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sabre Insurance Group pays out 50.6% 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.

Is JLT or SBRE more profitable?

Sabre Insurance Group has a net margin of 12.82% compared to Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group's net margin of 0.00%. Sabre Insurance Group's return on equity of 12.19% beat Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sabre Insurance Group	12.82%	12.19%	3.84%

Do analysts recommend JLT or SBRE?

Sabre Insurance Group has a consensus target price of GBX 215, suggesting a potential upside of 70.91%. Given Sabre Insurance Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Sabre Insurance Group is more favorable than Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Sabre Insurance Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the media favor JLT or SBRE?

In the previous week, Sabre Insurance Group had 1 more articles in the media than Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sabre Insurance Group and 0 mentions for Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group. Sabre Insurance Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Sabre Insurance Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group	Neutral
Sabre Insurance Group	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor JLT or SBRE?

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group received 131 more outperform votes than Sabre Insurance Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.34% of users gave Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group an outperform vote while only 58.76% of users gave Sabre Insurance Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group	Outperform Votes 235 63.34%	Underperform Votes 136 36.66%
Sabre Insurance Group	Outperform Votes 104 58.76%	Underperform Votes 73 41.24%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of JLT or SBRE?

85.5% of Sabre Insurance Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Sabre Insurance Group shares are held by company 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.

Summary

Sabre Insurance Group beats Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.