HFEL vs. FAS, AIE, AUSC, ANII, PINT, OAP3, TAM, HEFT, NAIT, and JEMI
Should you be buying Henderson Far East Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson Far East Income include Fidelity Asian Values (FAS), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth (AUSC), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), North American Income Trust (NAIT), and JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Henderson Far East Income (LON:HFEL) and Fidelity Asian Values (LON:FAS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Henderson Far East Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Fidelity Asian Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Henderson Far East Income pays out -6,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity Asian Values pays out -18,750.0% 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.
8.7% of Henderson Far East Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.2% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Henderson Far East Income shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Henderson Far East Income has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Fidelity Asian Values' net margin of -97.04%. Fidelity Asian Values' return on equity of -1.52% beat Henderson Far East Income's return on equity.
Fidelity Asian Values received 19 more outperform votes than Henderson Far East Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.61% of users gave Henderson Far East Income an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Fidelity Asian Values an outperform vote.
Fidelity Asian Values has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Far East Income. Fidelity Asian Values is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Henderson Far East Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Henderson Far East Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Fidelity Asian Values'average media sentiment score.
Henderson Far East Income has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity Asian Values has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Fidelity Asian Values beats Henderson Far East Income on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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