Third Point Investors (TPOU) Competitors

Third Point Investors (LON:TPOU) and J2 Acquisition (LON:JTWO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, TPOU or JTWO?

Third Point Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J2 Acquisition. J2 Acquisition is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Third Point Investors, 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
Third Point Investors	£117.35M	0.04	£93.02M	£0.53	44.72
J2 Acquisition	£3.88B	0.00	N/A	-£4.77	-1.97

Do insiders & institutionals believe in TPOU or JTWO?

11.7% of Third Point Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Third Point Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to TPOU or JTWO?

In the previous week, Third Point Investors had 1 more articles in the media than J2 Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Third Point Investors and 0 mentions for J2 Acquisition. Third Point Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled J2 Acquisition'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Third Point Investors	Neutral
J2 Acquisition	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TPOU or JTWO?

Third Point Investors received 16 more outperform votes than J2 Acquisition when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave Third Point Investors an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave J2 Acquisition an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Third Point Investors	Outperform Votes 30 68.18%	Underperform Votes 14 31.82%
J2 Acquisition	Outperform Votes 14 63.64%	Underperform Votes 8 36.36%

Is TPOU or JTWO more profitable?

Third Point Investors has a net margin of 79.27% compared to J2 Acquisition's net margin of 0.00%. Third Point Investors' return on equity of 16.33% beat J2 Acquisition's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Third Point Investors	79.27%	16.33%	11.57%
J2 Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Third Point Investors beats J2 Acquisition on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.