HEFT vs. GROW, CHIU, NAIT, JEMI, ANII, HFEL, ORIT, OAP3, JCH, and FAS
Should you be buying Henderson European Focus Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson European Focus Trust include Molten Ventures (GROW), CT UK High Income Trust (CHIU), North American Income Trust (NAIT), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), Henderson Far East Income (HFEL), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), JPMorgan Claverhouse (JCH), and Fidelity Asian Values (FAS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Molten Ventures (LON:GROW) and Henderson European Focus Trust (LON:HEFT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Molten Ventures has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson European Focus Trust has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its stock price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Henderson European Focus Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Molten Ventures. Molten Ventures is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henderson European Focus Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Henderson European Focus Trust has a net margin of 87.92% compared to Henderson European Focus Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Molten Ventures' return on equity of 10.15% beat Henderson European Focus Trust's return on equity.
Molten Ventures received 175 more outperform votes than Henderson European Focus Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.06% of users gave Molten Ventures an outperform vote while only 63.11% of users gave Henderson European Focus Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Molten Ventures had 2 more articles in the media than Henderson European Focus Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Molten Ventures and 0 mentions for Henderson European Focus Trust. Henderson European Focus Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Molten Ventures' score of 0.00 indicating that Molten Ventures is being referred to more favorably in the media.
81.8% of Molten Ventures shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Henderson European Focus Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of Molten Ventures shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of Henderson European Focus Trust shares are owned 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.
Summary
Henderson European Focus Trust beats Molten Ventures on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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