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US Solar Fund (USF) Competitors

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As of 06/13/2025 11:52 AM Eastern

USF vs. JEGI, JLEN, NAS, HONY, PINT, SEIT, POLN, THRG, JPGI, and JUP

Should you be buying US Solar Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Solar Fund include JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Pollen Street (HONY), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), Pollen Street Group (POLN), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), and Jupiter Fund Management (JUP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

US Solar Fund vs. Its Competitors

JPMorgan European Growth & Income (LON:JEGI) and US Solar Fund (LON:USF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.

US Solar Fund has a net margin of 107.10% compared to JPMorgan European Growth & Income's net margin of 92.01%. JPMorgan European Growth & Income's return on equity of 14.20% beat US Solar Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JPMorgan European Growth & Income92.01% 14.20% 9.07%
US Solar Fund 107.10%-14.89%N/A

JPMorgan European Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. US Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,315.8%. JPMorgan European Growth & Income pays out 30.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. US Solar Fund pays out -3,857.7% 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. US Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

US Solar Fund received 1 more outperform votes than JPMorgan European Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
JPMorgan European Growth & IncomeN/AN/A
US Solar FundOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

45.0% of JPMorgan European Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of US Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan European Growth & Income shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of US Solar Fund 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.

JPMorgan European Growth & Income has higher revenue and earnings than US Solar Fund. US Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan European Growth & Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JPMorgan European Growth & Income£76.68M6.69£70.55M£16.567.31
US Solar Fund-£3.73B-0.03-£3.99B-£0.13-2.93

In the previous week, JPMorgan European Growth & Income had 1 more articles in the media than US Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for JPMorgan European Growth & Income and 1 mentions for US Solar Fund. JPMorgan European Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat US Solar Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan European Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan European Growth & Income
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
US Solar Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

JPMorgan European Growth & Income beats US Solar Fund on 10 of the 15 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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USF vs. The Competition

MetricUS Solar FundAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£116.98M£1.20B£5.64B£2.91B
Dividend Yield8.26%4.34%4.13%4.90%
P/E Ratio-2.9321.4612.63124.60
Price / Sales-0.032,411.701,724.55248,064.90
Price / CashN/A60.8149.9228.07
Price / Book0.001.163.154.64
Net Income-£3.99B£264.77M£1.23B£5.91B
7 Day Performance-9.52%11.90%5.93%12.86%
1 Month Performance-0.52%29.66%15.28%25.97%
1 Year Performance-19.32%5.33%14.63%77.95%

US Solar Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
USF
US Solar Fund
N/AGBX 0.38
-3.3%
N/A-50.3%£116.98M-£3.73B-2.93N/AGap Up
JEGI
JPMorgan European Growth & Income
N/AGBX 121.50
+0.4%
N/A+14.7%£515.41M£76.68M7.34N/APositive News
JLEN
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
N/AGBX 77.80
+1.4%
N/A-9.4%£514.67M-£3.83M-3,890.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
NAS
North Atlantic Smaller Cos
N/AGBX 3,870
+1.3%
N/A-90.3%£511.58M£96.28M5.82N/A
HONY
Pollen Street
N/AN/AN/AN/A£507.26MN/A975.31N/A
PINT
Pantheon Infrastructure
N/AGBX 104.50
+1.5%
N/A+37.4%£493.13MN/A6.36N/A
SEIT
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust
N/AGBX 44
-0.5%
N/A-23.3%£481.55M-£45.07M-8.50N/ANews Coverage
POLN
Pollen Street Group
1.8814 of 5 stars
GBX 778
+0.5%
GBX 900
+15.7%
+9.3%£479.48M£63.61M10.8084News Coverage
THRG
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust
N/AGBX 582.66
+0.1%
N/A-5.3%£474.11M£82.32M6.17N/APositive News
JPGI
Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AN/AN/AN/A£472.52M£93.27M5.01N/AHigh Trading Volume
JUP
Jupiter Fund Management
0.5642 of 5 stars
GBX 92.20
+0.8%
GBX 90.33
-2.0%
+26.5%£472.35M£377.99M-53.21522

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This page (LON:USF) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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