FSG vs. NAS, IPO, FSFL, CHRY, PCFT, EWI, THRG, CORD, GROW, and BUT
Should you be buying Foresight Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Group include North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), IP Group (IPO), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Molten Ventures (GROW), and Brunner (BUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Group (LON:FSG) and North Atlantic Smaller Cos (LON:NAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Foresight Group has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, North Atlantic Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
46.8% of Foresight Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.9% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.6% of Foresight Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 43.2% of North Atlantic Smaller Cos shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Foresight Group has higher revenue and earnings than North Atlantic Smaller Cos. North Atlantic Smaller Cos is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Foresight Group and Foresight Group both had 1 articles in the media. North Atlantic Smaller Cos' average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Foresight Group's score of 0.00 indicating that North Atlantic Smaller Cos is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Foresight Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Foresight Group pays out 10,476.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. North Atlantic Smaller Cos pays out -5,238.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
North Atlantic Smaller Cos received 91 more outperform votes than Foresight Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Foresight Group an outperform vote while only 68.38% of users gave North Atlantic Smaller Cos an outperform vote.
Foresight Group has a net margin of 15.39% compared to North Atlantic Smaller Cos' net margin of -133.37%. Foresight Group's return on equity of 27.80% beat North Atlantic Smaller Cos' return on equity.
Foresight Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 560, suggesting a potential upside of 24.72%. Given Foresight Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Foresight Group is more favorable than North Atlantic Smaller Cos.
Summary
Foresight Group beats North Atlantic Smaller Cos on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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