FNTL vs. AFM, ELIX, YOU, PPHC, SAG, GTLY, RCDO, MANO, MJH, and SECN
Should you be buying Fintel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fintel include Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), Elixirr International (ELIX), YouGov (YOU), Public Policy (PPHC), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Ricardo (RCDO), Manolete Partners (MANO), MJ Hudson Group (MJH), and SEC Newgate (SECN). These companies are all part of the "consulting services" industry.
Fintel vs.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) and Fintel (LON:FNTL) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fintel has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting received 71 more outperform votes than Fintel when rated by MarketBeat users.
96.8% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.2% of Fintel shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.3% of Fintel shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share. Fintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 10,769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fintel pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fintel is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Fintel. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fintel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fintel has a net margin of 8.56% compared to Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's net margin of 6.78%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity of 10.64% beat Fintel's return on equity.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting presently has a consensus price target of GBX 442.50, indicating a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Fintel.
In the previous week, Fintel had 2 more articles in the media than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fintel and 0 mentions for Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Fintel's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's score of 0.00 indicating that Fintel is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Fintel on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:FNTL) was last updated on 3/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
