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AJ Bell (AJB) Competitors

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GBX 411.80 +0.20 (+0.05%)
As of 04/17/2025 12:29 PM Eastern

AJB vs. ICP, SDRC, HL, FCIT, SDR, STJ, MNG, ATST, PCT, and 3IN

Should you be buying AJ Bell stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AJ Bell include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Schroders (SDR), St. James's Place (STJ), M&G (MNG), Alliance Trust (ATST), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

AJ Bell vs.

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than AJ Bell. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AJ Bell, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intermediate Capital Group£831.60M0.00£409.10M£0.77N/A
AJ Bell£244.77M6.94£81.11M£19.5521.06

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of AJ Bell shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of AJ Bell shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Intermediate Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AJ Bell'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group Neutral
AJ Bell Neutral

AJ Bell has a consensus price target of GBX 455, suggesting a potential upside of 10.49%. Given AJ Bell's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than Intermediate Capital Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intermediate Capital Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
AJ Bell
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. AJ Bell pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AJ Bell is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Intermediate Capital Group received 360 more outperform votes than AJ Bell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 42.22% of users gave AJ Bell an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Intermediate Capital GroupOutperform Votes
398
70.44%
Underperform Votes
167
29.56%
AJ BellOutperform Votes
38
42.22%
Underperform Votes
52
57.78%

Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to AJ Bell's net margin of 33.14%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 42.30% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group56.78% 20.09% 4.57%
AJ Bell 33.14%42.30%36.07%

Summary

AJ Bell beats Intermediate Capital Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AJB vs. The Competition

MetricAJ BellAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.70B£1.09B£3.66B£2.48B
Dividend Yield2.88%4.44%4.20%4.96%
P/E Ratio21.0624.0814.01129.75
Price / Sales6.942,224.361,657.54232,042.22
Price / Cash17.5660.9450.1928.07
Price / Book8.351.093.334.43
Net Income£81.11M£260.34M£1.23B£5.83B
7 Day Performance3.21%2.64%1.99%3.01%
1 Month Performance-0.77%0.63%0.08%-1.06%
1 Year Performance37.27%1.56%9.68%102.51%

AJ Bell Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJB
AJ Bell
N/AGBX 411.80
+0.0%
GBX 455
+10.5%
+37.3%£1.70B£244.77M21.061,373Dividend Increase
ICP
Intermediate Capital Group
0.3439 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£6.24B£831.60M2,787.76579
SDRC
Schroders
N/AN/AN/AN/A£6.12B£3.14B1,071.785,750High Trading Volume
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.9593 of 5 stars
GBX 1,108.50
flat
GBX 1,104
-0.4%
+53.6%£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
FCIT
F&C Investment Trust
N/AGBX 1,009
-0.1%
N/A+3.7%£4.88B£981.19M5.23N/ADividend Announcement
SDR
Schroders
2.7123 of 5 stars
GBX 313.60
-0.8%
GBX 427.33
+36.3%
-15.0%£4.87B£2.78B13.706,438
STJ
St. James's Place
1.4956 of 5 stars
GBX 891.30
-0.5%
GBX 784.25
-12.0%
+113.4%£4.82B£26.27B-747.032,298News Coverage
MNG
M&G
1.0006 of 5 stars
GBX 195.75
+0.5%
GBX 223.33
+14.1%
-1.7%£4.66B£9.02B27.916,101
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 271
-2.2%
N/A-90.6%£3.19B£1.24B2.66120Positive News
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 321.50
-0.8%
N/A-0.8%£2.97B£374M846.05N/A

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This page (LON:AJB) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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