Gateley (GTLY) Competitors

Gateley (LON:GTLY) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and valuation.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, GTLY or AFM?

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Gateley. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gateley, 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
Gateley	£176.99M	0.98	£10.34M	£7.74	16.76
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting	£233.62M	0.00	£15.85M	£0.13	N/A

Is GTLY or AFM more profitable?

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a net margin of 6.78% compared to Gateley's net margin of 5.84%. Gateley's return on equity of 12.31% beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gateley	5.84%	12.31%	8.12%
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting	6.78%	10.64%	7.51%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GTLY or AFM?

Gateley received 65 more outperform votes than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.53% of users gave Alpha Financial Markets Consulting an outperform vote while only 61.82% of users gave Gateley an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Gateley	Outperform Votes 136 61.82%	Underperform Votes 84 38.18%
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting	Outperform Votes 71 75.53%	Underperform Votes 23 24.47%

Does the media prefer GTLY or AFM?

In the previous week, Gateley had 1 more articles in the media than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Gateley and 0 mentions for Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Gateley's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's score of 0.00 indicating that Gateley is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Gateley	Positive
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting	Neutral

Do analysts recommend GTLY or AFM?

Given Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Gateley.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gateley	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in GTLY or AFM?

34.4% of Gateley shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. 48.8% of Gateley shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, GTLY or AFM?

Gateley has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is GTLY or AFM a better dividend stock?

Gateley pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share. Gateley pays out 129.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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. Gateley is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Gateley beats Alpha Financial Markets Consulting on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.