EST vs. ALK, ADMR, ONE, BAY, GSC, TAN, PEY, ORCH, IVPB, and 47IE
Should you be buying East Star Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of East Star Resources include Alkemy Capital Investments (ALK), Admiral Acquisition (ADMR), Oneiro Energy (ONE), Bay Capital (BAY), GS Chain (GSC), Tanfield Group (TAN), Princess Private Equity (PEY), Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Invesco Select Balanced Risk Alloc (IVPB), and S&U (47IE). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
East Star Resources (LON:EST) and Alkemy Capital Investments (LON:ALK) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, Alkemy Capital Investments had 3 more articles in the media than East Star Resources. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alkemy Capital Investments and 0 mentions for East Star Resources. Alkemy Capital Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat East Star Resources' score of 0.00 indicating that Alkemy Capital Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.6% of East Star Resources shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.5% of Alkemy Capital Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 48.4% of East Star Resources shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.2% of Alkemy Capital Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Alkemy Capital Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than East Star Resources, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
East Star Resources has a beta of -0.23, meaning that its share price is 123% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alkemy Capital Investments has a beta of 2.1, meaning that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alkemy Capital Investments received 153 more outperform votes than East Star Resources when rated by MarketBeat users.
Alkemy Capital Investments' return on equity of 0.00% beat East Star Resources' return on equity.
Summary
Alkemy Capital Investments beats East Star Resources on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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