STJ vs. LGEN, SMT, PSH, ICP, SDRC, HL, SDR, FCIT, MNG, and ATST
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), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Schroders (SDR), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), and Alliance Trust (ATST). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
St. James's Place vs.
St. James's Place (LON:STJ) and Legal & General Group (LON:LGEN) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
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.
In the previous week, Legal & General Group had 1 more articles in the media than St. James's Place. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Legal & General Group and 1 mentions for St. James's Place. St. James' Place's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Legal & General Group's score of 0.21 indicating that St. James's Place is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Legal & General Group received 506 more outperform votes than St. James's Place when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.77% of users gave St. James's Place an outperform vote while only 71.86% of users gave Legal & General Group an outperform vote.
St. James's Place pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Legal & General Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. St. James's Place pays out -1,173.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Legal & General Group pays out 387.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
79.6% of St. James's Place shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of St. James's Place shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Legal & General Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 currently has a consensus price target of GBX 784.25, suggesting a potential downside of 12.90%. Legal & General Group has a consensus price target of GBX 267, suggesting a potential upside of 9.88%. Given Legal & General Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Legal & General Group is more favorable than St. James's Place.
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, Legal & General Group has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Legal & General Group beats St. James's Place on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:STJ) was last updated on 4/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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