JPMorgan American (JAM) Competitors

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and JPMorgan American (LON:JAM) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is PSH or JAM a better dividend stock?

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. JPMorgan American pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Pershing Square pays out 436.4% 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 American pays out 344.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, PSH or JAM?

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan American. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan American, 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
Pershing Square	£3.14B	2.17	£2.49B	£10.54	351.61
JPMorgan American	£434.58M	4.65	£424.07M	£2.32	483.62

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in PSH or JAM?

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.5% of JPMorgan American shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of JPMorgan American shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is PSH or JAM more profitable?

JPMorgan American has a net margin of 97.58% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 79.14%. JPMorgan American's return on equity of 25.80% beat Pershing Square's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pershing Square	79.14%	22.66%	11.83%
JPMorgan American	97.58%	25.80%	15.33%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PSH or JAM?

JPMorgan American received 95 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A
JPMorgan American	Outperform Votes 95 65.07%	Underperform Votes 51 34.93%

Does the media prefer PSH or JAM?

In the previous week, Pershing Square and Pershing Square both had 1 articles in the media. JPMorgan American's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.59 indicating that JPMorgan American is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
JPMorgan American	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, PSH or JAM?

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan American has a beta of 0.65, suggesting that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

JPMorgan American beats Pershing Square on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.