HOT vs. HAN, ARTL, MHN, ANIC, OSEC, CRWN, NSI, UTL, VIP, and GOT
Should you be buying Henderson Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson Opportunities include Hansa Investment (HAN), Alpha Real Trust (ARTL), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), Agronomics (ANIC), Octopus AIM VCT 2 (OSEC), Crown Place VCT (CRWN), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), UIL (UTL), Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP), and Global Opportunities Trust (GOT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hansa Investment (LON:HAN) and Henderson Opportunities (LON:HOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Hansa Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Opportunities. Hansa Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henderson Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hansa Investment and Hansa Investment both had 2 articles in the media. Hansa Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Henderson Opportunities' score of 0.30 indicating that Henderson Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hansa Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Henderson Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Hansa Investment pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Henderson Opportunities pays out -6,190.5% 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 Opportunities is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hansa Investment has a net margin of 85.77% compared to Hansa Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Henderson Opportunities' return on equity of 8.16% beat Hansa Investment's return on equity.
Hansa Investment received 53 more outperform votes than Henderson Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.08% of users gave Hansa Investment an outperform vote while only 56.60% of users gave Henderson Opportunities an outperform vote.
0.9% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.0% of Henderson Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.2% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Henderson Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hansa Investment has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson Opportunities has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hansa Investment beats Henderson Opportunities on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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