ASAI vs. TRU, DFCH, TIME, VANQ, LIT, HAT, SUS, IPF, FCH, and EQLS
Should you be buying ASA International Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASA International Group include TruFin (TRU), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Time Finance (TIME), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), H&T Group (HAT), S&U (SUS), International Personal Finance (IPF), Funding Circle (FCH), and Equals Group (EQLS). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
TruFin (LON:TRU) and ASA International Group (LON:ASAI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
TruFin received 25 more outperform votes than ASA International Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.91% of users gave TruFin an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave ASA International Group an outperform vote.
TruFin has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA International Group has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TruFin's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat ASA International Group's score of 0.00 indicating that ASA International Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ASA International Group has higher revenue and earnings than TruFin. TruFin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASA International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
62.9% of TruFin shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.6% of ASA International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.2% of TruFin shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.2% of ASA International Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ASA International Group has a net margin of 6.35% compared to ASA International Group's net margin of -35.70%. TruFin's return on equity of 10.53% beat ASA International Group's return on equity.
Summary
ASA International Group beats TruFin on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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