TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (SMIF) Competitors

JPMorgan Japanese (LON:JFJ) and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer JFJ or SMIF?

TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund received 26 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Japanese when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.26% of users gave JPMorgan Japanese an outperform vote while only 68.46% of users gave TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan Japanese	Outperform Votes 63 73.26%	Underperform Votes 23 26.74%
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	Outperform Votes 89 68.46%	Underperform Votes 41 31.54%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in JFJ or SMIF?

63.9% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of JPMorgan Japanese shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is JFJ or SMIF a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan Japanese pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. JPMorgan Japanese pays out 5.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% 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. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, JFJ or SMIF?

JPMorgan Japanese has higher revenue and earnings than TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Japanese, 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 Japanese	£198.16M	4.60	£194.81M	£118.41	4.69
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.08	-1,047.50

Is JFJ or SMIF more profitable?

JPMorgan Japanese has a net margin of 98.31% compared to TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. JPMorgan Japanese's return on equity of 19.70% beat TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan Japanese	98.31%	19.70%	8.06%
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	N/A	19.68%	N/A

Does the media refer more to JFJ or SMIF?

In the previous week, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than JPMorgan Japanese. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund and 1 mentions for JPMorgan Japanese. JPMorgan Japanese's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's score of 0.37 indicating that JPMorgan Japanese is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Japanese	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

JPMorgan Japanese beats TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.