AFM vs. FNTL, RCDO, ELIX, SAG, GTLY, PPHC, DATA, CGEO, MRL, and OCN
Should you be buying Alpha Financial Markets Consulting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting include Fintel (FNTL), Ricardo (RCDO), Elixirr International (ELIX), Science Group (SAG), Gateley (GTLY), Public Policy (PPHC), GlobalData (DATA), Georgia Capital (CGEO), Marlowe (MRL), and Ocean Wilsons (OCN). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Fintel (LON:FNTL) and Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (LON:AFM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Fintel has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has a consensus price target of GBX 442.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.57%. Given Fintel's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is more favorable than Fintel.
53.2% of Fintel shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 103.1% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting shares are held by institutional investors. 46.6% of Fintel shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting 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.
Fintel pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Fintel pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting pays out 11,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Fintel had 1 more articles in the media than Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Fintel and 1 mentions for Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Fintel's score of -0.17 indicating that Fintel is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting has higher revenue and earnings than Fintel. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fintel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fintel has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Fintel's net margin of 6.35%. Fintel's return on equity of 10.24% beat Alpha Financial Markets Consulting's return on equity.
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting received 71 more outperform votes than Fintel when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting beats Fintel on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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