AFM vs. FNTL, RCDO, ELIX, SAG, GTLY, PPHC, DATA, CGEO, MRL, and OCN
Should you be buying Alpha Financial Markets Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting include Fintel (FNTL), Ricardo (RCDO), Elixirr International (ELIX), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Public Policy (PPHC), GlobalData (DATA), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Marlowe (MRL), and Ocean Wilsons (OCN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Fintel (LON:FNTL) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Fintel has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting received 71 more outperform votes than Fintel when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Fintel and Fintel both had 2 articles in the media. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Fintel's score of -0.46 indicating that Fintel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
53.2% of Fintel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 103.1% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. 46.6% of Fintel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by company 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.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a consensus target price of GBX 442.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.72%. Given Fintel's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Fintel.
Fintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Fintel pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 11,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Fintel. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fintel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fintel has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Fintel's net margin of 6.35%. Fintel's return on equity of 10.24% beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity.
Summary
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Fintel on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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