FTF vs. IPO, POLN, FSG, JEGI, AAS, HONY, FSFL, OTV2, PINT, and THRG
Should you be buying Foresight Enterprise VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Enterprise VCT include IP Group (IPO), Pollen Street Group (POLN), Foresight Group (FSG), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Pollen Street (HONY), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), and BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Enterprise VCT vs. Its Competitors
Foresight Enterprise VCT (LON:FTF) and IP Group (LON:IPO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
70.2% of IP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Enterprise VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of IP Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
IP Group has a net margin of 106.78% compared to Foresight Enterprise VCT's net margin of 90.24%. Foresight Enterprise VCT's return on equity of 4.58% beat IP Group's return on equity.
Foresight Enterprise VCT has higher revenue and earnings than IP Group. IP 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.
IP Group has a consensus target price of GBX 126, indicating a potential upside of 118.33%. Given IP Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe IP Group is more favorable than Foresight Enterprise VCT.
Foresight Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.8%. IP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Foresight Enterprise VCT pays out 223.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IP Group pays out -4.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Foresight Enterprise VCT has a beta of -0.03, indicating that its stock price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IP Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, IP Group had 1 more articles in the media than Foresight Enterprise VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for IP Group and 0 mentions for Foresight Enterprise VCT. IP Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Foresight Enterprise VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that IP Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
IP Group beats Foresight Enterprise VCT on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:FTF) was last updated on 8/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
