SJG vs. BOOK, BRK, GSF, GABI, GSEO, JAGI, DIVI, AIE, BRFI, and SST
Should you be buying Schroder Japan Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Schroder Japan Trust include Literacy Capital (BOOK), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), VH Glob Sustainable Energy Opp (GSEO), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), The Diverse Income Trust (DIVI), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI), and The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust (SST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Literacy Capital (LON:BOOK) and Schroder Japan Trust (LON:SJG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and profitability.
2.1% of Literacy Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 77.6% of Schroder Japan Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 64.3% of Literacy Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.1% of Schroder Japan Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Literacy Capital has a beta of -0.19, suggesting that its share price is 119% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder Japan Trust has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder Japan Trust has a net margin of 100.26% compared to Schroder Japan Trust's net margin of 93.50%. Schroder Japan Trust's return on equity of 62.05% beat Literacy Capital's return on equity.
Literacy Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Schroder Japan Trust. Literacy Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder Japan Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Schroder Japan Trust received 88 more outperform votes than Literacy Capital when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Schroder Japan Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Literacy Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Schroder Japan Trust and 0 mentions for Literacy Capital. Literacy Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Schroder Japan Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Schroder Japan Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Schroder Japan Trust beats Literacy Capital on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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