HANA vs. SEC, FTF, MMIT, UAV, BASC, TIGT, JZCP, OIG, PVN, and BRSA
Should you be buying Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' include Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Troy Income & Growth Trust (TIGT), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), Oryx International Growth (OIG), ProVen VCT (PVN), and BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (LON:HANA) and Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
4.4% of Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.1% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Equity Capital received 29 more outperform votes than Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.00% of users gave Strategic Equity Capital an outperform vote while only 64.04% of users gave Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' an outperform vote.
Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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. Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A'. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Strategic Equity Capital and 1 mentions for Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A'. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A''s score of 0.46 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 85.96% compared to Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A''s net margin of 85.77%. Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A''s return on equity of 8.16% beat Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity.
Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Equity Capital. Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Strategic Equity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Strategic Equity Capital beats Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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