FSFL vs. NAS, PCFT, FSG, CORD, IPO, EWI, CHRY, THRG, BUT, and CGI
Should you be buying Foresight Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Solar include North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Foresight Group (FSG), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), IP Group (IPO), Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Brunner (BUT), and Canadian General Investments (CGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) and North Atlantic Smaller Cos (LON:NAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
58.2% of Foresight Solar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.2% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Foresight Solar pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays out -5,238.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Foresight Solar received 47 more outperform votes than North Atlantic Smaller Cos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.38% of users gave North Atlantic Smaller Cos an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote.
Foresight Solar has a net margin of 69.04% compared to North Atlantic Smaller Cos' net margin of -133.37%. Foresight Solar's return on equity of 2.63% beat North Atlantic Smaller Cos' return on equity.
Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its share price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, North Atlantic Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Foresight Solar and Foresight Solar both had 2 articles in the media. Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.30 equaled North Atlantic Smaller Cos'average media sentiment score.
Foresight Solar has higher revenue and earnings than North Atlantic Smaller Cos. North Atlantic Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Foresight Solar beats North Atlantic Smaller Cos on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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