Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF) Competitors

JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) and Foresight Enterprise VCT (LON:FTF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

Is JLEN or FTF a better dividend stock?

JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Foresight Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out -355.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Foresight Enterprise VCT pays out 78.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is JLEN or FTF more profitable?

Foresight Enterprise VCT has a net margin of 90.24% compared to JLEN Environmental Assets Group's net margin of 0.00%. Foresight Enterprise VCT's return on equity of 4.58% beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	N/A	-1.78%	-1.11%
Foresight Enterprise VCT	90.24%	4.58%	3.66%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in JLEN or FTF?

46.8% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Foresight Enterprise VCT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, JLEN or FTF?

JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foresight Enterprise VCT has a beta of -0.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, JLEN or FTF?

Foresight Enterprise VCT has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. JLEN Environmental Assets Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Enterprise VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	-£12.30M	-42.71	-£13.94M	-£0.02	-3,785.71
Foresight Enterprise VCT	£12.23M	12.02	£9.90M	£0.04	1,104.76

Does the media favor JLEN or FTF?

In the previous week, Foresight Enterprise VCT had 1 more articles in the media than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Foresight Enterprise VCT and 0 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group. Foresight Enterprise VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.76 indicating that Foresight Enterprise VCT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JLEN Environmental Assets Group	Positive
Foresight Enterprise VCT	Positive

Summary

Foresight Enterprise VCT beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.