NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) Competitors

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) and NextEnergy Solar Fund (LON:NESF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and risk.

Is PNL or NESF a better dividend stock?

Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Personal Assets pays out 15.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays out -341.4% 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. NextEnergy Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more volatility and risk, PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, suggesting that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextEnergy Solar Fund has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PNL or NESF?

46.0% of Personal Assets shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.9% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is PNL or NESF more profitable?

Personal Assets has a net margin of 116.31% compared to NextEnergy Solar Fund's net margin of -408.61%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 7.96% beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Personal Assets	116.31%	7.96%	1.96%
NextEnergy Solar Fund	-408.61%	-2.33%	-2.16%

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets received 18 more outperform votes than NextEnergy Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.69% of users gave NextEnergy Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Personal Assets	Outperform Votes 108 61.02%	Underperform Votes 69 38.98%
NextEnergy Solar Fund	Outperform Votes 90 65.69%	Underperform Votes 47 34.31%

Does the media favor PNL or NESF?

In the previous week, Personal Assets had 4 more articles in the media than NextEnergy Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Personal Assets and 1 mentions for NextEnergy Solar Fund. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's score of 0.67 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Personal Assets	2 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
NextEnergy Solar Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets has higher revenue and earnings than NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, 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
Personal Assets	£107.31M	15.27	£124.81M	£39.23	13.10
NextEnergy Solar Fund	£3.35M	124.49	-£13.68M	-£2.34	-30.60

Summary

Personal Assets beats NextEnergy Solar Fund on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.