AFN vs. FKE, MAC, WHI, QBT, RTW, TPOU, APQ, ADMR, ALGW, and FBH
Should you be buying ADVFN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADVFN include Fiske (FKE), Marechale Capital (MAC), WH Ireland Group (WHI), Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT), RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), Third Point Investors USD (TPOU), APQ Global (APQ), Admiral Acquisition (ADMR), Alpha Growth (ALGW), and FBD (FBH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
ADVFN (LON:AFN) and Fiske (LON:FKE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
ADVFN has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fiske has a beta of 0.12, indicating that its stock price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Fiske had 4 more articles in the media than ADVFN. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Fiske and 0 mentions for ADVFN. Fiske's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat ADVFN's score of 0.00 indicating that Fiske is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fiske has higher revenue and earnings 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.
1.0% of ADVFN shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.7% of Fiske shares are owned by institutional investors. 54.1% of ADVFN shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.1% of Fiske shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
ADVFN pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.2%. Fiske pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. ADVFN pays out -5,000.0% 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. ADVFN is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fiske has a net margin of 8.83% compared to ADVFN's net margin of -44.42%. Fiske's return on equity of 3.06% beat ADVFN's return on equity.
Summary
Fiske beats ADVFN on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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