JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI) Competitors

JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (LON:JAGI) and JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) 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 analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, JAGI or JMG?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income 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 Asia Growth & Income	£1.27M	236.26	-£2.18M	-£0.05	-7,409.56
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	£45.04M	26.52	£22.66M	£0.02	5,430.00

Which has more risk & volatility, JAGI or JMG?

JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, meaning that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is JAGI or JMG a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income pays out -32,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media refer more to JAGI or JMG?

In the previous week, JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income and JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income both had 1 articles in the media. JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat JPMorgan Emerging Markets' score of 0.92 indicating that JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is JAGI or JMG more profitable?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a net margin of 50.31% compared to JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's net margin of -171.38%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity of 1.67% beat JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	-171.38%	-0.55%	-0.23%
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	50.31%	1.67%	1.55%

Does the MarketBeat Community favor JAGI or JMG?

JPMorgan Emerging Markets received 78 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income	N/A	N/A
JPMorgan Emerging Markets	Outperform Votes 78 75.73%	Underperform Votes 25 24.27%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of JAGI or JMG?

29.9% of JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.5% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

JPMorgan Emerging Markets beats JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.