Head to Head Survey: Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) versus MSCI (NYSE:MSCI)

Green Street Capital (OTCMKTS:JAGR) and MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, risk, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Green Street Capital and MSCI, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Green Street Capital	0	0	0	0	0.00
MSCI	0	4	6	1	2.73

MSCI has a consensus price target of $642.63, suggesting a potential upside of 9.52%. Given MSCI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSCI is more favorable than Green Street Capital.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Green Street Capital and MSCI”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSCI	$2.86 billion	15.44	$1.11 billion	$15.78	37.18

MSCI has higher revenue and earnings than Green Street Capital.

Profitability

This table compares Green Street Capital and MSCI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Green Street Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSCI	40.03%	-110.94%	24.20%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

90.0% of MSCI shares are held by institutional investors. 72.4% of Green Street Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.3% of MSCI shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

MSCI beats Green Street Capital on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Green Street Capital

Green Street Capital Corp. invests in environmental technology companies that require capital for expansion or are pursuing acquisition strategies. It also recycles grease trap waste for the production of biomass feedstock used in blending biofuels. Green Street Capital Corp. was formerly known as Jaguar Mining Enterprises Inc. and changed its name to Green Street Capital Corp. in July 2010. The company is based in Tampa, Florida.

About MSCI

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides critical decision support tools and solutions for the investment community to manage investment processes worldwide. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed financial product, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, an integrated view of risk and return service, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, counterparty, and climate risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The ESG and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG impacts the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to help investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other Private Assets segment includes real estate and infrastructure data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. The Private Capital Solutions segment offers tools to help private asset investors across mission-critical workflows, such as sourcing terms and conditions, evaluating operating performance, managing risk and other activities supporting private capital investing. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.