JTC (JTC) Competitors

Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and JTC (LON:JTC) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Which has more risk and volatility, ICP or JTC?

Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JTC has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in ICP or JTC?

70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of JTC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of JTC shares are held by 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in ICP or JTC?

Intermediate Capital Group received 329 more outperform votes than JTC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.40% of users gave JTC an outperform vote while only 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Intermediate Capital Group	Outperform Votes 398 70.44%	Underperform Votes 167 29.56%
JTC	Outperform Votes 69 73.40%	Underperform Votes 25 26.60%

Is ICP or JTC a better dividend stock?

Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share. JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JTC pays out 67.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JTC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is ICP or JTC more profitable?

Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity of 20.09% beat JTC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Intermediate Capital Group	56.78%	20.09%	4.57%
JTC	10.29%	5.70%	4.96%

Does the media favor ICP or JTC?

In the previous week, JTC had 3 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for JTC and 0 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. JTC's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Intermediate Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that JTC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Intermediate Capital Group	Neutral
JTC	Neutral

Do analysts recommend ICP or JTC?

JTC has a consensus price target of GBX 1,250, suggesting a potential upside of 32.98%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JTC is more favorable than Intermediate Capital Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Intermediate Capital Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, ICP or JTC?

Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than JTC. Intermediate Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, 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
Intermediate Capital Group	£831.60M	0.00	£409.10M	£0.77	N/A
JTC	£291.42M	5.42	£29.99M	£17.83	52.72

Summary

JTC beats Intermediate Capital Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.