FAS vs. BNKR, ASL, BHMG, ATT, IHP, JMG, HRI, LWDB, VEIL, and EDIN
Should you be buying Fidelity Asian Values stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity Asian Values include The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR), Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), IntegraFin (IHP), JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG), Herald (HRI), Law Debenture (LWDB), Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), and Edinburgh Investment (EDIN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fidelity Asian Values (LON:FAS) and The Bankers Investment Trust (LON:BNKR) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and profitability.
Fidelity Asian Values has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Bankers Investment Trust has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The Bankers Investment Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Fidelity Asian Values. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for The Bankers Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Fidelity Asian Values. The Bankers Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Fidelity Asian Values' score of 0.00 indicating that The Bankers Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Fidelity Asian Values received 32 more outperform votes than The Bankers Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.43% of users gave The Bankers Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Fidelity Asian Values an outperform vote.
54.2% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.3% of The Bankers Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of The Bankers Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity Asian Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. The Bankers Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Fidelity Asian Values pays out -18,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Bankers Investment Trust pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity Asian Values is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
The Bankers Investment Trust has a net margin of 81.59% compared to Fidelity Asian Values' net margin of -97.04%. The Bankers Investment Trust's return on equity of 4.79% beat Fidelity Asian Values' return on equity.
The Bankers Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity Asian Values. Fidelity Asian Values is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Bankers Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
The Bankers Investment Trust beats Fidelity Asian Values on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Fidelity Asian Values News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for FAS and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding FAS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Fidelity Asian Values Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
