JZ Capital Partners (JZCP) Competitors

BlackRock Smaller Companies (LON:BRSC) and JZ Capital Partners (LON:JZCP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Which has more risk & volatility, BRSC or JZCP?

BlackRock Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JZ Capital Partners has a beta of 0.22, indicating that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is BRSC or JZCP a better dividend stock?

BlackRock Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. JZ Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. BlackRock Smaller Companies pays out -6,176.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JZ Capital Partners pays out -7,575.8% 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. JZ Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, BRSC or JZCP?

JZ Capital Partners has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Smaller Companies. BlackRock Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JZ Capital Partners, 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
BlackRock Smaller Companies	-£25.36M	-24.81	-£32.70M	-£0.68	-1,964.71
JZ Capital Partners	-£14.27M	-10.86	-£31.82M	-£0.33	-606.06

Does the media prefer BRSC or JZCP?

In the previous week, JZ Capital Partners had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JZ Capital Partners and 0 mentions for BlackRock Smaller Companies. BlackRock Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled JZ Capital Partners'average media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Smaller Companies	Neutral
JZ Capital Partners	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in BRSC or JZCP?

JZ Capital Partners received 2 more outperform votes than BlackRock Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.75% of users gave JZ Capital Partners an outperform vote while only 61.39% of users gave BlackRock Smaller Companies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BlackRock Smaller Companies	Outperform Votes 62 61.39%	Underperform Votes 39 38.61%
JZ Capital Partners	Outperform Votes 64 62.75%	Underperform Votes 38 37.25%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in BRSC or JZCP?

39.2% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.8% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of JZ Capital Partners 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.

Is BRSC or JZCP more profitable?

BlackRock Smaller Companies' return on equity of -4.53% beat JZ Capital Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BlackRock Smaller Companies	N/A	-4.53%	-2.39%
JZ Capital Partners	N/A	-9.39%	-3.39%

Summary

JZ Capital Partners beats BlackRock Smaller Companies on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.