TOP vs. FRGE, GSIW, ICE, CME, NDAQ, TROW, TW, LPLA, BGC, and SNEX
Should you be buying TOP Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TOP Financial Group include Forge Global (FRGE), Garden Stage (GSIW), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CME Group (CME), Nasdaq (NDAQ), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Tradeweb Markets (TW), LPL Financial (LPLA), BGC Group (BGC), and StoneX Group (SNEX). These companies are all part of the "security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges & services" industry.
TOP Financial Group (NASDAQ:TOP) and Forge Global (NYSE:FRGE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, risk, community ranking, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
TOP Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Forge Global.
0.3% of TOP Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.7% of Forge Global shares are held by institutional investors. 85.6% of TOP Financial Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Forge Global shares are held 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, TOP Financial Group had 21 more articles in the media than Forge Global. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for TOP Financial Group and 2 mentions for Forge Global. TOP Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Forge Global's score of 0.00 indicating that TOP Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Forge Global has a consensus price target of $4.33, indicating a potential upside of 174.26%. Given Forge Global's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Forge Global is more favorable than TOP Financial Group.
TOP Financial Group has a beta of -1.77, meaning that its share price is 277% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Forge Global has a beta of 2.54, meaning that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Forge Global received 7 more outperform votes than TOP Financial Group when rated by MarketBeat users.
TOP Financial Group has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Forge Global's net margin of -119.12%. TOP Financial Group's return on equity of 0.00% beat Forge Global's return on equity.
Summary
TOP Financial Group beats Forge Global on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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