Henderson High Income Trust (HHI) Competitors

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) and Henderson High Income Trust (LON:HHI) 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 valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Is JMG or HHI more profitable?

Henderson High Income Trust has a net margin of 86.35% compared to JPMorgan Emerging Markets' net margin of 82.19%. Henderson High Income Trust's return on equity of 12.66% beat JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	82.19%	6.30%	1.55%
Henderson High Income Trust	86.35%	12.66%	7.10%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in JMG or HHI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets received 5 more outperform votes than Henderson High Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.73% of users gave JPMorgan Emerging Markets an outperform vote while only 60.33% of users gave Henderson High Income Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Outperform Votes 78 75.73%	Underperform Votes 25 24.27%
Henderson High Income Trust	Outperform Votes 73 60.33%	Underperform Votes 48 39.67%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, JMG or HHI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson High Income Trust. Henderson High Income 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	£97.45M	11.72	£80.10M	£7.55	14.28
Henderson High Income Trust	£39.56M	7.37	£34.16M	£19.69	8.56

Is JMG or HHI a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Henderson High Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Henderson High Income Trust pays out 55.9% 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 media prefer JMG or HHI?

In the previous week, Henderson High Income Trust had 2 more articles in the media than JPMorgan Emerging Markets. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Henderson High Income Trust and 0 mentions for JPMorgan Emerging Markets. Henderson High Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.88 beat JPMorgan Emerging Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that Henderson High Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Neutral
Henderson High Income Trust	Very Positive

Do institutionals and insiders believe in JMG or HHI?

48.5% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.2% of Henderson High Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Henderson High Income Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, JMG or HHI?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson High Income Trust has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Henderson High Income Trust beats JPMorgan Emerging Markets on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.