CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) Competitors

CC Japan Income & Growth (LON:CCJI) 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 community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CCJI or JFJ?

JPMorgan Japanese has higher revenue and earnings than CC Japan Income & Growth. CC Japan Income & Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Japanese, 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
CC Japan Income & Growth	£63.53M	3.70	£60.67M	£45.19	3.87
JPMorgan Japanese	£198.16M	4.60	£194.81M	£118.41	4.69

Is CCJI or JFJ more profitable?

JPMorgan Japanese has a net margin of 98.31% compared to CC Japan Income & Growth's net margin of 95.50%. CC Japan Income & Growth's return on equity of 22.45% beat JPMorgan Japanese's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CC Japan Income & Growth	95.50%	22.45%	N/A
JPMorgan Japanese	98.31%	19.70%	8.06%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in CCJI or JFJ?

60.7% of CC Japan Income & Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of CC Japan Income & Growth shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is CCJI or JFJ a better dividend stock?

CC Japan Income & Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. JPMorgan Japanese pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. CC Japan Income & Growth pays out 11.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan Japanese pays out 5.9% 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CCJI or JFJ?

CC Japan Income & Growth received 55 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Japanese when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.63% of users gave CC Japan Income & Growth an outperform vote while only 73.26% of users gave JPMorgan Japanese an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CC Japan Income & Growth	Outperform Votes 118 77.63%	Underperform Votes 34 22.37%
JPMorgan Japanese	Outperform Votes 63 73.26%	Underperform Votes 23 26.74%

Does the media refer more to CCJI or JFJ?

In the previous week, CC Japan Income & Growth and CC Japan Income & Growth both had 1 articles in the media. CC Japan Income & Growth's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat JPMorgan Japanese's score of 1.02 indicating that CC Japan Income & Growth is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
CC Japan Income & Growth	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
JPMorgan Japanese	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

JPMorgan Japanese beats CC Japan Income & Growth on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.