HUW vs. PGH, OOA, REC, AATG, CYN, AQX, VANQ, AMAT, AAEV, and WKOF
Should you be buying Helios Underwriting stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Helios Underwriting include Personal Group (PGH), Octopus AIM VCT (OOA), Record (REC), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN), Aquis Exchange (AQX), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), and Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Personal Group (LON:PGH) and Helios Underwriting (LON:HUW) 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 dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Personal Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Helios Underwriting. Personal Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Helios Underwriting, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Personal Group has a net margin of 8.71% compared to Personal Group's net margin of 2.16%. Helios Underwriting's return on equity of 13.73% beat Personal Group's return on equity.
Personal Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Helios Underwriting pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Personal Group pays out 9,230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Helios Underwriting pays out 12,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Personal Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
39.4% of Personal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.8% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.9% of Personal Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.2% of Helios Underwriting shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Personal Group had 7 more articles in the media than Helios Underwriting. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Personal Group and 0 mentions for Helios Underwriting. Personal Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Helios Underwriting's score of -0.02 indicating that Helios Underwriting is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Personal Group has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Helios Underwriting has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Helios Underwriting received 27 more outperform votes than Personal Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.05% of users gave Helios Underwriting an outperform vote while only 55.07% of users gave Personal Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Personal Group beats Helios Underwriting on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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