ASAI vs. DFCH, TIME, TRU, VCAP, VANQ, LIT, FCH, HAT, ASTO, and MINI
Should you be buying ASA International Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASA International Group include Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Time Finance (TIME), TruFin (TRU), Vector Capital (VCAP), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Funding Circle (FCH), H&T Group (HAT), AssetCo (ASTO), and Miton UK Microcap (MINI). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Distribution Finance Capital (LON:DFCH) and ASA International Group (LON:ASAI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Distribution Finance Capital has a net margin of 48.62% compared to Distribution Finance Capital's net margin of 6.10%. ASA International Group's return on equity of 12.98% beat Distribution Finance Capital's return on equity.
63.9% of Distribution Finance Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.6% of ASA International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.8% of Distribution Finance Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.0% of ASA International Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, ASA International Group had 2 more articles in the media than Distribution Finance Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ASA International Group and 0 mentions for Distribution Finance Capital. Distribution Finance Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat ASA International Group's score of 0.00 indicating that ASA International Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Distribution Finance Capital has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA International Group has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Distribution Finance Capital received 5 more outperform votes than ASA International Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.17% of users gave Distribution Finance Capital an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave ASA International Group an outperform vote.
Distribution Finance Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ASA International Group. Distribution Finance Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASA International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Distribution Finance Capital beats ASA International Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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