STJ vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, MNG, SDR, FCIT, HL, and PCT
Should you be buying St. James's Place stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of St. James's Place include Legal & General Group (LGEN), Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), M&G (MNG), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
St. James's Place vs. Its Competitors
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and profitability.
St. James's Place presently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,485, suggesting a potential upside of 18.61%. Legal & General Group has a consensus target price of GBX 246.67, suggesting a potential upside of 5.05%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Legal & General Group.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. St. James's Place pays out 19.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Legal & General Group pays out 478.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 4 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for St. James's Place. Legal & General Group's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat St. James' Place's score of 0.00 indicating that Legal & General Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Legal & General Group has higher revenue and earnings than St. James's Place. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Legal & General Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Legal & General Group has a net margin of 0.67% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.02%. Legal & General Group's return on equity of 7.79% beat St. James' Place's return on equity.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
77.8% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of St. James's Place shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats St. James's Place on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STJ) was last updated on 9/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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