FAS vs. HFEL, OAP3, ANII, BGS, PINT, AUSC, AAIF, HEFT, TAM, and GROW
Should you be buying Fidelity Asian Values stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidelity Asian Values include Henderson Far East Income (HFEL), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (AUSC), abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), and Molten Ventures (GROW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Henderson Far East Income (LON:HFEL) and Fidelity Asian Values (LON:FAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment and dividends.
Henderson Far East Income has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity Asian Values has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Henderson Far East Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Fidelity Asian Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Henderson Far East Income pays out -6,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity Asian Values pays out 2,727.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henderson Far East Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
8.7% of Henderson Far East Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.0% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Henderson Far East Income shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fidelity Asian Values has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Far East Income. Henderson Far East Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity Asian Values, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelity Asian Values received 19 more outperform votes than Henderson Far East Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.61% of users gave Henderson Far East Income an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Fidelity Asian Values an outperform vote.
Fidelity Asian Values has a net margin of 81.60% compared to Fidelity Asian Values' net margin of 0.00%. Henderson Far East Income's return on equity of 10.40% beat Fidelity Asian Values' return on equity.
In the previous week, Fidelity Asian Values' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Henderson Far East Income'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Fidelity Asian Values beats Henderson Far East Income on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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