Fair Oaks Income (FA17) Competitors

Fair Oaks Income (LON:FA17) and Temple Bar (LON:TMPL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Is FA17 or TMPL more profitable?

Temple Bar has a net margin of 98.26% compared to Fair Oaks Income's net margin of 97.06%. Temple Bar's return on equity of 20.62% beat Fair Oaks Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fair Oaks Income	97.06%	12.24%	N/A
Temple Bar	98.26%	20.62%	7.08%

Does the media refer more to FA17 or TMPL?

In the previous week, Fair Oaks Income and Fair Oaks Income both had 1 articles in the media. Fair Oaks Income's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Temple Bar's score of 0.20 indicating that Fair Oaks Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Fair Oaks Income	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Temple Bar	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, FA17 or TMPL?

Fair Oaks Income has higher revenue and earnings than Temple Bar. Temple Bar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fair Oaks Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fair Oaks Income	£3.05B	0.08	£2.96B	£0.07	7.94
Temple Bar	£157.64M	5.94	£154.90M	£53.87	6.08

Is FA17 or TMPL a better dividend stock?

Fair Oaks Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,481.5%. Temple Bar pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Fair Oaks Income pays out 11,759.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Temple Bar pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in FA17 or TMPL?

2.5% of Fair Oaks Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.5% of Temple Bar shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Fair Oaks Income shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Temple Bar 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.

Summary

Temple Bar beats Fair Oaks Income on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.