FAP vs. FTN, LBS, BK, XLY, AIM, OLY, PBY.UN, SBC, GDV, and DF
Should you be buying abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC include Financial 15 Split (FTN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), Auxly Cannabis Group (XLY), Aimia (AIM), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), Canso Credit Trust - Canso Credit Income Fund (PBY.UN), Brompton Split Banc (SBC), Global Dividend Growth Split (GDV), and Dividend 15 Split Corp. II (DF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Financial 15 Split (TSE:FTN) and abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC (TSE:FAP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Financial 15 Split has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Financial 15 Split had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Financial 15 Split and 0 mentions for abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat Financial 15 Split's score of 0.00 indicating that Financial 15 Split is being referred to more favorably in the media.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC has higher revenue and earnings than Financial 15 Split. Financial 15 Split is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
12.1% of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC has a net margin of 100.60% compared to abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's net margin of 0.00%. Financial 15 Split's return on equity of 16.13% beat abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC's return on equity.
Financial 15 Split pays an annual dividend of C$1.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 18.2%. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC pays an annual dividend of C$0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Financial 15 Split pays out -151.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC pays out 43.8% 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. Financial 15 Split is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Financial 15 Split received 83 more outperform votes than abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.44% of users gave abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC an outperform vote while only 68.85% of users gave Financial 15 Split an outperform vote.
Summary
abrdn Asia-Pacific Income Fund VCC beats Financial 15 Split on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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