CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (CTUK) Competitors

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) and CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust (LON:CTUK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation and risk.

Which has better valuation and earnings, JMG or CTUK?

CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JPMorgan Emerging Markets. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Emerging Markets, 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
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	£45.04M	27.17	£22.66M	£0.02	5,562.60
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust	£41.80M	7.95	£38.32M	£0.36	908.33

Is JMG or CTUK more profitable?

CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has a net margin of 91.69% compared to JPMorgan Emerging Markets' net margin of 50.31%. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust's return on equity of 12.54% beat JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	50.31%	1.67%	1.55%
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust	91.69%	12.54%	7.44%

Which has more risk and volatility, JMG or CTUK?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer JMG or CTUK?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets received 78 more outperform votes than CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Outperform Votes 78 75.73%	Underperform Votes 25 24.27%
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust	N/A	N/A

Is JMG or CTUK a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media favor JMG or CTUK?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Emerging Markets had 1 more articles in the media than CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JPMorgan Emerging Markets and 0 mentions for CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan Emerging Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Positive
CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust	Neutral

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of JMG or CTUK?

48.5% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust shares are held 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.

Summary

CT UK Capital And Income Investment Trust beats JPMorgan Emerging Markets on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.