SJG vs. EDIN, HRI, TFG, ASHM, IHP, TRY, GSS, BPCR, AGT, and JFJ
Should you be buying Schroder Japan Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Japan Trust include Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Herald (HRI), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Ashmore Group (ASHM), IntegraFin (IHP), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), AVI Global Trust (AGT), and JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Schroder Japan Trust vs. Its Competitors
Schroder Japan Trust (LON:SJG) and Edinburgh Investment (LON:EDIN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Schroder Japan Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Edinburgh Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Schroder Japan Trust pays out 9.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Edinburgh Investment pays out 22.4% 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.
Schroder Japan Trust has a net margin of 99.53% compared to Edinburgh Investment's net margin of 95.34%. Schroder Japan Trust's return on equity of 18.12% beat Edinburgh Investment's return on equity.
Edinburgh Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Japan Trust. Schroder Japan Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Edinburgh Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.0% of Schroder Japan Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.1% of Edinburgh Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Schroder Japan Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Edinburgh Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Schroder Japan Trust received 2 more outperform votes than Edinburgh Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave Edinburgh Investment an outperform vote while only 63.77% of users gave Schroder Japan Trust an outperform vote.
Schroder Japan Trust has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Edinburgh Investment has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Edinburgh Investment had 8 more articles in the media than Schroder Japan Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Edinburgh Investment and 0 mentions for Schroder Japan Trust. Edinburgh Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat Schroder Japan Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Edinburgh Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Edinburgh Investment beats Schroder Japan Trust on 10 of the 17 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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This page (LON:SJG) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
