VELA vs. ARGO, FAIR, BGLF, BGHS, SIHL, MILA, RGO, NCA2, TORO, and LTI
Should you be buying Vela Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vela Technologies include Argo Group (ARGO), Fair Oaks Income 2021 (FAIR), Blackstone Loan Financing (BGLF), Boussard & Gavaudan (BGHS), Symphony International (SIHL), Mila Resources (MILA), RiverFort Global Opportunities (RGO), New Century AIM VCT 2 (NCA2), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), and Lindsell Train (LTI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Vela Technologies (LON:VELA) and Argo Group (LON:ARGO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and profitability.
Vela Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Argo Group.
Vela Technologies received 10 more outperform votes than Argo Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.17% of users gave Vela Technologies an outperform vote while only 58.14% of users gave Argo Group an outperform vote.
4.9% of Vela Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of Vela Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 66.4% of Argo Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Vela Technologies has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Argo Group has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vela Technologies had 2 more articles in the media than Argo Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Vela Technologies and 2 mentions for Argo Group. Vela Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Argo Group's score of -0.29 indicating that Vela Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Argo Group has a net margin of 9.71% compared to Vela Technologies' net margin of 0.00%. Vela Technologies' return on equity of 3.40% beat Argo Group's return on equity.
Summary
Vela Technologies beats Argo Group on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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