CC Japan Income & Growth (CCJI) Competitors

BlackRock World Mining Trust (LON:BRWM) and CC Japan Income & Growth (LON:CCJI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, BRWM or CCJI?

CC Japan Income & Growth has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BlackRock World Mining Trust. BlackRock World Mining Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CC Japan Income & Growth, 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
BlackRock World Mining Trust	£8.72M	113.13	-£13.40M	-£0.07	-7,371.43
CC Japan Income & Growth	N/A	N/A	N/A	£0.09	2,055.56

Does the media favor BRWM or CCJI?

In the previous week, BlackRock World Mining Trust had 1 more articles in the media than CC Japan Income & Growth. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock World Mining Trust and 0 mentions for CC Japan Income & Growth. BlackRock World Mining Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat CC Japan Income & Growth's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock World Mining Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BlackRock World Mining Trust	Positive
CC Japan Income & Growth	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BRWM or CCJI?

CC Japan Income & Growth received 27 more outperform votes than BlackRock World Mining Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.63% of users gave CC Japan Income & Growth an outperform vote while only 62.76% of users gave BlackRock World Mining Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BlackRock World Mining Trust	Outperform Votes 91 62.76%	Underperform Votes 54 37.24%
CC Japan Income & Growth	Outperform Votes 118 77.63%	Underperform Votes 34 22.37%

Is BRWM or CCJI a better dividend stock?

BlackRock World Mining Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 34 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. CC Japan Income & Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. BlackRock World Mining Trust pays out -48,571.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CC Japan Income & Growth pays out 5,555.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BlackRock World Mining Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is BRWM or CCJI more profitable?

CC Japan Income & Growth has a net margin of 0.00% compared to BlackRock World Mining Trust's net margin of -153.65%. CC Japan Income & Growth's return on equity of 0.00% beat BlackRock World Mining Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BlackRock World Mining Trust	-153.65%	-1.18%	-0.10%
CC Japan Income & Growth	N/A	N/A	N/A

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

17.0% of BlackRock World Mining Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.7% of CC Japan Income & Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of BlackRock World Mining Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.3% of CC Japan Income & Growth shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

CC Japan Income & Growth beats BlackRock World Mining Trust on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.