LMS Capital (LMS) Competitors

LMS Capital (LON:LMS) and Jupiter Green (LON:JGC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and risk.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, LMS or JGC?

Jupiter Green has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LMS Capital. LMS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jupiter Green, 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
LMS Capital	£42.02M	0.36	-£4.84M	-£6.00	-3.13
Jupiter Green	£7.93M	6.01	£6.55M	£34.51	7.28

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer LMS or JGC?

LMS Capital received 8 more outperform votes than Jupiter Green when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.26% of users gave Jupiter Green an outperform vote while only 69.31% of users gave LMS Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
LMS Capital	Outperform Votes 70 69.31%	Underperform Votes 31 30.69%
Jupiter Green	Outperform Votes 62 71.26%	Underperform Votes 25 28.74%

Which has more volatility and risk, LMS or JGC?

LMS Capital has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jupiter Green has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is LMS or JGC a better dividend stock?

LMS Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Jupiter Green pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. LMS Capital pays out -16.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Jupiter Green pays out 2.9% 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. LMS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the media prefer LMS or JGC?

In the previous week, LMS Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Jupiter Green. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for LMS Capital and 0 mentions for Jupiter Green. LMS Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Jupiter Green's score of 0.00 indicating that LMS Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
LMS Capital	Neutral
Jupiter Green	Neutral

Is LMS or JGC more profitable?

Jupiter Green has a net margin of 82.61% compared to LMS Capital's net margin of -11.52%. Jupiter Green's return on equity of 12.91% beat LMS Capital's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LMS Capital	-11.52%	-12.31%	-7.08%
Jupiter Green	82.61%	12.91%	0.15%

Do institutionals and insiders believe in LMS or JGC?

31.3% of LMS Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.4% of Jupiter Green shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.6% of LMS Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 39.6% of Jupiter Green 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.

Summary

Jupiter Green beats LMS Capital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.