STS vs. JFJ, AGT, GSS, TMPL, TRY, JPE, BBGI, OCI, ICGT, and APAX
Should you be buying STS Global Income & Growth Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of STS Global Income & Growth Trust include JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), AVI Global Trust (AGT), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), Temple Bar (TMPL), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Growth (JPE), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), and Apax Global Alpha (APAX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust vs. Its Competitors
STS Global Income & Growth Trust (LON:STS) and JPMorgan Japanese (LON:JFJ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability and risk.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Japanese has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, STS Global Income & Growth Trust and STS Global Income & Growth Trust both had 1 articles in the media. STS Global Income & Growth Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat JPMorgan Japanese's score of 0.95 indicating that STS Global Income & Growth Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
7.4% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.9% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of STS Global Income & Growth Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. JPMorgan Japanese pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. STS Global Income & Growth Trust pays out 0.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Japanese pays out 0.2% 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.
JPMorgan Japanese has higher revenue and earnings than STS Global Income & Growth Trust. STS Global Income & Growth Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Japanese, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JPMorgan Japanese has a net margin of 98.31% compared to STS Global Income & Growth Trust's net margin of 88.82%. JPMorgan Japanese's return on equity of 19.70% beat STS Global Income & Growth Trust's return on equity.
Summary
JPMorgan Japanese beats STS Global Income & Growth Trust on 11 of the 14 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:STS) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff