Baronsmead Venture Trust (BVT) Competitors

Baronsmead Venture Trust (LON:BVT) and JPMorgan Japanese (LON:JFJ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.

Which has better earnings & valuation, BVT or JFJ?

JPMorgan Japanese has higher revenue and earnings than Baronsmead Venture Trust. JPMorgan Japanese is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baronsmead Venture Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Baronsmead Venture Trust	£8.85M	22.73	£4.69M	£0.01	5,200.00
JPMorgan Japanese	£125.52M	6.61	£132.85M	£0.90	642.22

Which has more risk & volatility, BVT or JFJ?

Baronsmead Venture Trust has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Japanese has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is BVT or JFJ more profitable?

JPMorgan Japanese has a net margin of 105.84% compared to Baronsmead Venture Trust's net margin of 52.96%. JPMorgan Japanese's return on equity of 16.19% beat Baronsmead Venture Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Baronsmead Venture Trust	52.96%	2.24%	1.39%
JPMorgan Japanese	105.84%	16.19%	8.06%

Does the media prefer BVT or JFJ?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Japanese had 2 more articles in the media than Baronsmead Venture Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for JPMorgan Japanese and 0 mentions for Baronsmead Venture Trust. Baronsmead Venture Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat JPMorgan Japanese's score of -0.84 indicating that Baronsmead Venture Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Baronsmead Venture Trust	Neutral
JPMorgan Japanese	Negative

Is BVT or JFJ a better dividend stock?

Baronsmead Venture Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. JPMorgan Japanese pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Baronsmead Venture Trust pays out 40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JPMorgan Japanese pays out 777.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BVT or JFJ?

Baronsmead Venture Trust and JPMorgan Japanese both received 63 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 73.26% of users gave JPMorgan Japanese an outperform vote while only 67.02% of users gave Baronsmead Venture Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Baronsmead Venture Trust	Outperform Votes 63 67.02%	Underperform Votes 31 32.98%
JPMorgan Japanese	Outperform Votes 63 73.26%	Underperform Votes 23 26.74%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of BVT or JFJ?

63.9% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Baronsmead Venture Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of JPMorgan Japanese 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.

Summary

JPMorgan Japanese beats Baronsmead Venture Trust on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.