FTF vs. SEC, MMIT, UAV, HANA, BASC, JZCP, PVN, BRSA, TIGT, and CLIG
Should you be buying Foresight Enterprise VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Enterprise VCT include Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), ProVen VCT (PVN), BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA), Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT), and City of London Investment Group (CLIG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Enterprise VCT (LON:FTF) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Strategic Equity Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Foresight Enterprise VCT. Strategic Equity Capital 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.
64.1% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Enterprise VCT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Foresight Enterprise VCT received 75 more outperform votes than Strategic Equity Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.97% of users gave Foresight Enterprise VCT an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave Strategic Equity Capital an outperform vote.
Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 85.96% compared to Foresight Enterprise VCT's net margin of 59.67%. Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity of 7.20% beat Foresight Enterprise VCT's return on equity.
Foresight Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Foresight Enterprise VCT pays out 23,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Strategic Equity Capital pays out 1,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Foresight Enterprise VCT. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Strategic Equity Capital and 0 mentions for Foresight Enterprise VCT. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Foresight Enterprise VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Foresight Enterprise VCT has a beta of -0.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Strategic Equity Capital beats Foresight Enterprise VCT on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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