JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (JUSC) Competitors

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (LON:JUSC) and BBGI Global Infrastructure (LON:BBGI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Which has better valuation & earnings, JUSC or BBGI?

BBGI Global Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies. BBGI Global Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies, 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 US Smaller Companies	£16.39M	14.77	£11.79M	£19.50	20.52
BBGI Global Infrastructure	£67.98M	14.68	£54.89M	£7.72	18.18

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in JUSC or BBGI?

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies received 51 more outperform votes than BBGI Global Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 60.27% of users gave BBGI Global Infrastructure an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies	Outperform Votes 95 64.63%	Underperform Votes 52 35.37%
BBGI Global Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 44 60.27%	Underperform Votes 29 39.73%

Which has more risk & volatility, JUSC or BBGI?

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BBGI Global Infrastructure has a beta of 0.23, suggesting that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor JUSC or BBGI?

In the previous week, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies and JPMorgan US Smaller Companies both had 3 articles in the media. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.41 beat BBGI Global Infrastructure's score of 1.10 indicating that JPMorgan US Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
BBGI Global Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is JUSC or BBGI a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BBGI Global Infrastructure pays out 103.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is JUSC or BBGI more profitable?

BBGI Global Infrastructure has a net margin of 80.75% compared to JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' net margin of 71.91%. BBGI Global Infrastructure's return on equity of 5.24% beat JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies	71.91%	4.45%	3.11%
BBGI Global Infrastructure	80.75%	5.24%	3.32%

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in JUSC or BBGI?

27.1% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.9% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of BBGI Global Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

JPMorgan US Smaller Companies beats BBGI Global Infrastructure on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.