Third Point Investors (TPOU) Competitors

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

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, JTWO or TPOU?

Third Point Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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
J2 Acquisition	£3.88B	0.00	N/A	-£4.77	-1.97
Third Point Investors	£117.35M	0.03	£93.02M	£0.53	42.74

Do analysts recommend JTWO or TPOU?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
J2 Acquisition	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Third Point Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is JTWO or TPOU 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
J2 Acquisition	N/A	N/A	N/A
Third Point Investors	79.27%	16.33%	11.57%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in JTWO or TPOU?

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

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of JTWO or TPOU?

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

Does the media favor JTWO or TPOU?

In the previous week, J2 Acquisition's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Third Point Investors'average media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
J2 Acquisition	Neutral
Third Point Investors	Neutral

Summary

Third Point Investors beats J2 Acquisition on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.