NAS vs. FSFL, FSG, EWI, IPO, PCFT, CORD, THRG, CHRY, BUT, and GROW
Should you be buying North Atlantic Smaller Cos stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of North Atlantic Smaller Cos include Foresight Solar (FSFL), Foresight Group (FSG), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), IP Group (IPO), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Brunner (BUT), and Molten Ventures (GROW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) and North Atlantic Smaller Cos (LON:NAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
58.0% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 43.2% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are owned 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.
Foresight Solar has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Foresight Solar's net margin of -133.37%. Foresight Solar's return on equity of -0.82% beat North Atlantic Smaller Cos' return on equity.
In the previous week, North Atlantic Smaller Cos had 1 more articles in the media than Foresight Solar. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for North Atlantic Smaller Cos and 1 mentions for Foresight Solar. Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat North Atlantic Smaller Cos' score of 0.00 indicating that North Atlantic Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Foresight Solar pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays out -5,238.1% 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. Foresight Solar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Foresight Solar received 47 more outperform votes than North Atlantic Smaller Cos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.38% of users gave North Atlantic Smaller Cos an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote.
Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, North Atlantic Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
North Atlantic Smaller Cos has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Foresight Solar. North Atlantic Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
North Atlantic Smaller Cos beats Foresight Solar on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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