ADVFN (AFN) Competitors

Cavendish Financial (LON:FCAP) and ADVFN (LON:AFN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in FCAP or AFN?

9.2% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of ADVFN shares are held by institutional investors. 85.6% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 53.0% of ADVFN shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FCAP or AFN?

ADVFN received 45 more outperform votes than Cavendish Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Cavendish Financial an outperform vote while only 68.67% of users gave ADVFN an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cavendish Financial	Outperform Votes 12 70.59%	Underperform Votes 5 29.41%
ADVFN	Outperform Votes 57 68.67%	Underperform Votes 26 31.33%

Does the media prefer FCAP or AFN?

In the previous week, Cavendish Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ADVFN'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Cavendish Financial	Neutral
ADVFN	Neutral

Is FCAP or AFN a better dividend stock?

Cavendish Financial pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.3%. ADVFN pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Cavendish Financial pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADVFN pays out -5,000.0% 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. Cavendish Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more risk & volatility, FCAP or AFN?

Cavendish Financial has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ADVFN has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FCAP or AFN more profitable?

Cavendish Financial has a net margin of -17.16% compared to ADVFN's net margin of -44.42%. Cavendish Financial's return on equity of -18.69% beat ADVFN's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cavendish Financial	-17.16%	-18.69%	-9.31%
ADVFN	-44.42%	-63.90%	-10.02%

Which has higher valuation and earnings, FCAP or AFN?

ADVFN has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cavendish Financial. ADVFN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cavendish Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cavendish Financial	£32.15M	0.89	-£5.52M	-£0.03	-263.33
ADVFN	£4.68M	1.63	-£1.76M	-£0.04	-412.50

Summary

Cavendish Financial beats ADVFN on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.