USF vs. JCH, RTW, PCGH, IPO, PAC, BLU, UEM, NAIT, HEFT, and NESF
Should you be buying US Solar Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Solar Fund include JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH), RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), IP Group (IPO), Pacific Assets (PAC), Blue Star Capital (BLU), Utilico Emerging Markets Trust (UEM), North American Income Trust (NAIT), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), and NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
US Solar Fund vs.
JPMorgan Claverhouse (LON:JCH) and US Solar Fund (LON:USF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.
8.8% of JPMorgan Claverhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of US Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.4% of JPMorgan Claverhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of US Solar Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
JPMorgan Claverhouse pays an annual dividend of GBX 35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. US Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,552.8%. JPMorgan Claverhouse pays out 33.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. US Solar Fund pays out -3,857.7% 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. US Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
JPMorgan Claverhouse has higher revenue and earnings than US Solar Fund. US Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Claverhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, JPMorgan Claverhouse had 1 more articles in the media than US Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JPMorgan Claverhouse and 0 mentions for US Solar Fund. JPMorgan Claverhouse's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat US Solar Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan Claverhouse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JPMorgan Claverhouse received 65 more outperform votes than US Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave US Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 64.71% of users gave JPMorgan Claverhouse an outperform vote.
US Solar Fund has a net margin of 107.10% compared to JPMorgan Claverhouse's net margin of 92.61%. JPMorgan Claverhouse's return on equity of 14.30% beat US Solar Fund's return on equity.
Summary
JPMorgan Claverhouse beats US Solar Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:USF) was last updated on 4/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
