JZ Capital Partners (JZCP) Competitors

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

Is JZCP or BRSC a better dividend stock?

JZ Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.2%. BlackRock Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 42 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. JZ Capital Partners pays out -7,575.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Smaller Companies pays out -6,176.5% 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 more risk and volatility, JZCP or BRSC?

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

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

56.8% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.2% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.4% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is JZCP or BRSC 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
JZ Capital Partners	N/A	-9.39%	-3.39%
BlackRock Smaller Companies	N/A	-4.53%	-2.39%

Does the media favor JZCP or BRSC?

In the previous week, BlackRock Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than JZ Capital Partners. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for JZ Capital Partners. BlackRock Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat JZ Capital Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JZ Capital Partners	Neutral
BlackRock Smaller Companies	Positive

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, JZCP or BRSC?

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
JZ Capital Partners	-£14.27M	-11.13	-£31.82M	-£0.33	-621.21
BlackRock Smaller Companies	-£25.36M	-25.00	-£32.70M	-£0.68	-1,979.41

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer JZCP or BRSC?

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

Summary

JZ Capital Partners beats BlackRock Smaller Companies on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.