EJFI vs. NCYF, BRK, HAN, JAGI, RECI, BGUK, ARR, BBH, RSE, and TMI
Should you be buying EJF Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EJF Investments include CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), Hansa Investment (HAN), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI), Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (BGUK), Aurora Investment Trust (ARR), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Riverstone Energy (RSE), and Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
EJF Investments vs. Its Competitors
EJF Investments (LON:EJFI) and CQS New City High Yield (LON:NCYF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
EJF Investments has a beta of -0.03, indicating that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CQS New City High Yield has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
30.7% of EJF Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.1% of CQS New City High Yield shares are held by institutional investors. 30.0% of EJF Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of CQS New City High Yield shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CQS New City High Yield has higher revenue and earnings than EJF Investments. CQS New City High Yield is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EJF Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, CQS New City High Yield had 1 more articles in the media than EJF Investments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for CQS New City High Yield and 0 mentions for EJF Investments. EJF Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled CQS New City High Yield'saverage media sentiment score.
CQS New City High Yield has a net margin of 88.30% compared to EJF Investments' net margin of 73.72%. CQS New City High Yield's return on equity of 16.49% beat EJF Investments' return on equity.
EJF Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. CQS New City High Yield pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. EJF Investments pays out 125.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CQS New City High Yield pays out 50.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
CQS New City High Yield beats EJF Investments on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:EJFI) was last updated on 8/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
