HFEL vs. AUSC, FAS, PINT, HEFT, OAP3, TAM, NAIT, AAIF, BIOG, and JEMI
Should you be buying Henderson Far East Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson Far East Income include abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (AUSC), Fidelity Asian Values (FAS), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), North American Income Trust (NAIT), abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), The Biotech Growth Trust (BIOG), and JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (LON:AUSC) and Henderson Far East Income (LON:HFEL) 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 risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
58.0% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Henderson Far East Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Henderson Far East Income shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson Far East Income has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Henderson Far East Income received 94 more outperform votes than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth when rated by MarketBeat users.
Henderson Far East Income's return on equity of -8.33% beat abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth's return on equity.
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Henderson Far East Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth pays out -2,558.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Henderson Far East Income pays out -6,857.1% 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. Henderson Far East Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Henderson Far East Income had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Henderson Far East Income and 0 mentions for abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth. Henderson Far East Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth'saverage media sentiment score.
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Far East Income. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henderson Far East Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth and Henderson Far East Income tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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