POLR vs. BSIF, DGN, SOI, JII, SWEF, EAT, OCI, and SLPE
Should you be buying Polar Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital include Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Asia Dragon (DGN), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Starwood European Real Estate Finance (SWEF), European Assets Trust (EAT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), and Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (LON:BSIF) and Polar Capital (LON:POLR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Polar Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 515, indicating a potential downside of 6.19%. Given Bluefield Solar Income Fund's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Polar Capital is more favorable than Bluefield Solar Income Fund.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a net margin of 85.88% compared to Bluefield Solar Income Fund's net margin of 19.01%. Bluefield Solar Income Fund's return on equity of 25.84% beat Polar Capital's return on equity.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Polar Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays out 3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Polar Capital pays out 13,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bluefield Solar Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Polar Capital has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Polar Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Bluefield Solar Income Fund. Bluefield Solar Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Polar Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Bluefield Solar Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Polar Capital and 3 mentions for Bluefield Solar Income Fund. Polar Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Bluefield Solar Income Fund's score of 0.48 indicating that Bluefield Solar Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Polar Capital received 214 more outperform votes than Bluefield Solar Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.79% of users gave Polar Capital an outperform vote while only 60.11% of users gave Bluefield Solar Income Fund an outperform vote.
59.5% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.3% of Polar Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.5% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.0% of Polar Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Polar Capital beats Bluefield Solar Income Fund on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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