FSFL vs. PHI, CORD, FSG, CHRY, THRG, PCFT, BUT, NAS, EWI, and IPO
Should you be buying Foresight Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Solar include Pacific Horizon (PHI), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Foresight Group (FSG), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Brunner (BUT), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), and IP Group (IPO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) and Pacific Horizon (LON:PHI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Foresight Solar received 63 more outperform votes than Pacific Horizon when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote while only 65.81% of users gave Pacific Horizon an outperform vote.
Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Horizon has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
58.2% of Foresight Solar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Pacific Horizon shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Pacific Horizon shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Pacific Horizon pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Foresight Solar pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Horizon pays out -526.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Foresight Solar has a net margin of 69.04% compared to Pacific Horizon's net margin of 0.00%. Foresight Solar's return on equity of 2.63% beat Pacific Horizon's return on equity.
Foresight Solar has higher revenue and earnings than Pacific Horizon. Pacific Horizon is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Pacific Horizon'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Foresight Solar beats Pacific Horizon on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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