SEC vs. HANA, UAV, OIG, CLIG, FTF, BERI, BRSA, JSGI, JZCP, and BASC
Should you be buying Strategic Equity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Strategic Equity Capital include Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), City of London Investment Group (CLIG), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust (BERI), BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), and Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Strategic Equity Capital (LON:SEC) and Hansa Investment (LON:HANA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Strategic Equity Capital has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hansa Investment has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Strategic Equity Capital has a net margin of 85.96% compared to Hansa Investment's net margin of 85.77%. Hansa Investment's return on equity of 8.16% beat Strategic Equity Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Strategic Equity Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Hansa Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Strategic Equity Capital and 0 mentions for Hansa Investment. Strategic Equity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Hansa Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Strategic Equity Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
64.1% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.4% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Strategic Equity Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Hansa Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hansa Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Strategic Equity Capital. Hansa Investment 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.
Strategic Equity Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Hansa Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. 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 pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hansa Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Strategic Equity Capital received 29 more outperform votes than Hansa Investment 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 an outperform vote.
Summary
Strategic Equity Capital beats Hansa Investment on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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