AFN vs. FKE, JIM, WHI, ARDN, MAC, NXG, RMA, INVP, IGG, and PLUS
Should you be buying ADVFN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADVFN include Fiske (FKE), Jarvis Securities (JIM), WH Ireland Group (WHI), Arden Partners (ARDN), Marechale Capital (MAC), NEX Group (NXG), Rasmala (RMA), Investec Group (INVP), IG Group (IGG), and Plus500 (PLUS). These companies are all part of the "capital markets" industry.
ADVFN vs.
Fiske (LON:FKE) and ADVFN (LON:AFN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
Fiske has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its share price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADVFN has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fiske has a net margin of 8.83% compared to ADVFN's net margin of -20.67%. Fiske's return on equity of 9.08% beat ADVFN's return on equity.
Fiske has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ADVFN. ADVFN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fiske, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fiske received 17 more outperform votes than ADVFN when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.67% of users gave ADVFN an outperform vote while only 61.67% of users gave Fiske an outperform vote.
8.7% of Fiske shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of ADVFN shares are owned by institutional investors. 75.7% of Fiske shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 53.0% of ADVFN shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fiske pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. ADVFN pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 30.1%. 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. ADVFN pays out -93.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADVFN is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Fiske's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ADVFN'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Fiske beats ADVFN on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AFN) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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