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 profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk and media sentiment.

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%

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 2.5%. JPMorgan Japanese pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. 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.

Do insiders and 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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has preferable 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	4.32	£60.67M	£45.19	4.51
JPMorgan Japanese	£198.16M	5.60	£194.81M	£118.41	5.71

Does the media prefer CCJI or JFJ?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Japanese had 4 more articles in the media than CC Japan Income & Growth. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for JPMorgan Japanese and 0 mentions for CC Japan Income & Growth. JPMorgan Japanese's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat CC Japan Income & Growth's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan Japanese is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
CC Japan Income & Growth	Neutral
JPMorgan Japanese	Neutral

Summary

JPMorgan Japanese beats CC Japan Income & Growth on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.