FTV vs. APEO, OCI, SLPE, MRCH, GSCT, AGT.LN, ICGT, JESC, SDP, and TMPL
Should you be buying Foresight VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Foresight VCT include abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), and Temple Bar (TMPL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Foresight VCT (LON:FTV) and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (LON:APEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a net margin of 76.01% compared to Foresight VCT's net margin of 72.33%. Foresight VCT's return on equity of 8.02% beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' return on equity.
Foresight VCT has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Foresight VCT. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Foresight VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Foresight VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share. Foresight VCT pays out 5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays out 4,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Foresight VCT received 58 more outperform votes than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users.
72.2% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Foresight VCT had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Foresight VCT and 0 mentions for abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. Foresight VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' score of 0.00 indicating that Foresight VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities beats Foresight VCT on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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