FSFL vs. FSG, LIO, PCFT, IPO, CORD, EWI, JEGI, CGI, NAS, and NESF
Should you be buying Foresight Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Solar include Foresight Group (FSG), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), IP Group (IPO), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), Canadian General Investments (CGI), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), and NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Group (LON:FSG) and Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Foresight Group has higher revenue and earnings than Foresight Solar. Foresight Solar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foresight Group has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.26, suggesting that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.7% of Foresight Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.2% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.5% of Foresight Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Foresight Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 560, suggesting a potential upside of 20.43%. Given Foresight Solar's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Foresight Group is more favorable than Foresight Solar.
In the previous week, Foresight Solar had 1 more articles in the media than Foresight Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Foresight Solar and 1 mentions for Foresight Group. Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Foresight Group's score of -0.09 indicating that Foresight Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Foresight Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Foresight Group pays out 10,476.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Foresight Solar pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Foresight Solar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Foresight Group has a net margin of 15.39% compared to Foresight Group's net margin of 0.00%. Foresight Solar's return on equity of 27.80% beat Foresight Group's return on equity.
Foresight Solar received 138 more outperform votes than Foresight Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Foresight Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote.
Summary
Foresight Group beats Foresight Solar on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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