FGT vs. HRI, SLPE, OCI, JII, BSIF, SOI, DGN, POLR, and UKW
Should you be buying Finsbury Growth & Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finsbury Growth & Income include Herald (HRI), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), Polar Capital (POLR), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) and Herald (LON:HRI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and earnings.
Finsbury Growth & Income has higher revenue and earnings than Herald. Finsbury Growth & Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Herald, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Herald has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Finsbury Growth & Income and Finsbury Growth & Income both had 1 articles in the media. Finsbury Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Herald's score of -0.02 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Herald's net margin of 75.97%. Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity of 7.05% beat Herald's return on equity.
Herald received 25 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Herald an outperform vote.
28.4% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.1% of Herald shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Herald shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Finsbury Growth & Income beats Herald on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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