HSTN vs. UANC, HONY, BRGE, BGS, JPGI, ORIT, NAS, DGN, AFM, and POLR
Should you be buying Hansteen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hansteen include Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) (UANC), Pollen Street (HONY), BlackRock Greater Europe Investment Trust (BRGE), Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon (BGS), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust (NAS), Asia Dragon Trust (DGN), Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (AFM), and Polar Capital (POLR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hansteen vs.
Hansteen (LON:HSTN) and Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) (LON:UANC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Hansteen pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Hansteen pays out 0.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) pays out -70.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hansteen received 40 more outperform votes than Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.41% of users gave Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) an outperform vote while only 44.16% of users gave Hansteen an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hansteen's average media sentiment score of 0.08 beat Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L)'s score of 0.00 indicating that Hansteen is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hansteen, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hansteen beats Urban&Civic plc (UANC.L) on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding HSTN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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.
Hansteen Competitors List
