LFI vs. LMS, DSM, IX, TV2H, TEK, BPCR, KLSO, PMGR, KRM, and WCW
Should you be buying London Finance & Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of London Finance & Investment Group include LMS Capital (LMS), Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust (DSM), i(x) Net Zero (IX), Thames Ventures VCT 2 Healthcare Shs (TV2H), Tekcapital (TEK), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), Kelso Group (KLSO), Premier Miton Glb Renewables Trust (PMGR), KRM22 (KRM), and Walker Crips Group (WCW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
London Finance & Investment Group (LON:LFI) and LMS Capital (LON:LMS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation and earnings.
London Finance & Investment Group has a net margin of 50.77% compared to LMS Capital's net margin of 0.00%. London Finance & Investment Group's return on equity of 4.30% beat LMS Capital's return on equity.
London Finance & Investment Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. LMS Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. London Finance & Investment Group pays out 3,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LMS Capital pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LMS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
0.1% of London Finance & Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.3% of LMS Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 65.3% of London Finance & Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.7% of LMS Capital shares are held 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.
London Finance & Investment Group has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LMS Capital has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
LMS Capital received 28 more outperform votes than London Finance & Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.31% of users gave LMS Capital an outperform vote while only 61.76% of users gave London Finance & Investment Group an outperform vote.
London Finance & Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than LMS Capital. LMS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than London Finance & Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LMS Capital had 1 more articles in the media than London Finance & Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for LMS Capital and 1 mentions for London Finance & Investment Group. LMS Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat London Finance & Investment Group's score of -0.39 indicating that LMS Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
London Finance & Investment Group beats LMS Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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