FSFL vs. PCFT, CHRY, CORD, NAS, IPO, CGI, FSG, PAC, JEGI, and PCGH
Should you be buying Foresight Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Solar include Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), IP Group (IPO), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Foresight Group (FSG), Pacific Assets (PAC), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI), and Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust (PCGH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Polar Capital Global Financials (LON:PCFT) and Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Polar Capital Global Financials and Polar Capital Global Financials both had 2 articles in the media. Polar Capital Global Financials' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Foresight Solar's score of 0.00 indicating that Foresight Solar is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Polar Capital Global Financials pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Polar Capital Global Financials pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Foresight Solar pays out 26,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Foresight Solar received 32 more outperform votes than Polar Capital Global Financials when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 78.26% of users gave Polar Capital Global Financials an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote.
Polar Capital Global Financials has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.
81.4% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.2% of Foresight Solar shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Polar Capital Global Financials shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Solar has higher revenue and earnings than Polar Capital Global Financials. Polar Capital Global Financials is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Solar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foresight Solar has a net margin of 69.04% compared to Foresight Solar's net margin of 0.00%. Polar Capital Global Financials' return on equity of 2.63% beat Foresight Solar's return on equity.
Summary
Foresight Solar beats Polar Capital Global Financials on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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