STJ vs. SMT, LGEN, PSH, ICP, SDRC, FCIT, HL, SDR, MNG, 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 Scottish Mortgage (SMT), Legal & General Group (LGEN), Pershing Square (PSH), Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDRC), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), M&G (MNG), and Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
St. James's Place vs.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Scottish Mortgage (LON:SMT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
79.6% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of Scottish Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Scottish Mortgage had 1 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Scottish Mortgage and 3 mentions for St. James's Place. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Scottish Mortgage's score of 0.11 indicating that St. James's Place is being referred to more favorably in the media.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Scottish Mortgage pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. St. James's Place pays out -140,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Scottish Mortgage pays out -769.2% 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. St. James's Place is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
St. James's Place received 608 more outperform votes than Scottish Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.77% of users gave St. James's Place an outperform vote while only 67.84% of users gave Scottish Mortgage an outperform vote.
Scottish Mortgage has a net margin of 0.00% compared to St. James' Place's net margin of -0.03%. St. James' Place's return on equity of -0.55% beat Scottish Mortgage's return on equity.
St. James's Place has higher revenue and earnings than Scottish Mortgage. St. James's Place is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish Mortgage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
St. James's Place currently has a consensus price target of GBX 784.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.13%. Given St. James' Place's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe St. James's Place is more favorable than Scottish Mortgage.
St. James's Place has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Mortgage has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
St. James's Place beats Scottish Mortgage on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STJ) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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