WHI vs. FKE, QBT, AFN, TAVI, JIM, KLSO, KRM, ALGW, WCW, and ADA
Should you be buying WH Ireland Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WH Ireland Group include Fiske (FKE), Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT), ADVFN (AFN), Tavistock Investments (TAVI), Jarvis Securities (JIM), Kelso Group (KLSO), KRM22 (KRM), Alpha Growth (ALGW), Walker Crips Group (WCW), and Adams (ADA). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
WH Ireland Group (LON:WHI) and Fiske (LON:FKE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and profitability.
WH Ireland Group has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fiske has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fiske received 13 more outperform votes than WH Ireland Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.11% of users gave WH Ireland Group an outperform vote while only 61.67% of users gave Fiske an outperform vote.
Fiske has a net margin of 8.83% compared to WH Ireland Group's net margin of -23.63%. Fiske's return on equity of 3.06% beat WH Ireland Group's return on equity.
WH Ireland Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 100.0%. Fiske pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. WH Ireland Group pays out -5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fiske pays out 2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. WH Ireland Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
46.9% of WH Ireland Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Fiske shares are held by institutional investors. 17.9% of WH Ireland Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.2% of Fiske shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Fiske had 6 more articles in the media than WH Ireland Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Fiske and 0 mentions for WH Ireland Group. Fiske's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat WH Ireland Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Fiske is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fiske has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WH Ireland Group. WH Ireland Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fiske, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fiske beats WH Ireland Group on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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