FGT vs. HRI, SLPE, OCI, JII, BSIF, SOI, DGN, POLR, and UKW
Should you be buying Finsbury Growth & Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finsbury Growth & Income include Herald (HRI), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), Polar Capital (POLR), and Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Herald (LON:HRI) and Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Finsbury Growth & Income's net margin of 75.97%. Herald's return on equity of 7.05% beat Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity.
In the previous week, Herald and Herald both had 1 articles in the media. Herald's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Finsbury Growth & Income's score of -0.02 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Finsbury Growth & Income has higher revenue and earnings than Herald. Finsbury Growth & Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Herald, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
48.1% of Herald shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% of Herald shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Herald received 25 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Herald an outperform vote.
Herald has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Finsbury Growth & Income beats Herald on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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