FSFL vs. IPO, FSG, PCFT, CHRY, CORD, GROW, NAS, THRG, EWI, and BUT
Should you be buying Foresight Solar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight Solar include IP Group (IPO), Foresight Group (FSG), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Molten Ventures (GROW), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), and Brunner (BUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) and IP Group (LON:IPO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.26, indicating that its stock price is 74% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IP Group has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Foresight Solar has higher revenue and earnings than IP Group. Foresight Solar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IP Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foresight Solar's return on equity of -1.26% beat IP Group's return on equity.
IP Group has a consensus target price of GBX 126, suggesting a potential upside of 143.76%. Given IP Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe IP Group is more favorable than Foresight Solar.
IP Group received 221 more outperform votes than Foresight Solar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.47% of users gave IP Group an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote.
58.1% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.6% of IP Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of IP Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, IP Group had 7 more articles in the media than Foresight Solar. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for IP Group and 1 mentions for Foresight Solar. Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat IP Group's score of -0.11 indicating that Foresight Solar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. IP Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Foresight Solar pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. IP Group pays out -588.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Foresight Solar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Foresight Solar and IP Group tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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