AFN vs. JIM, CNKS, QBT, FKE, WHI, ARDN, MAC, NXG, RMA, and INVP
Should you be buying ADVFN stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ADVFN include Jarvis Securities (JIM), Cenkos Securities (CNKS), Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT), Fiske (FKE), WH Ireland Group (WHI), Arden Partners (ARDN), Marechale Capital (MAC), NEX Group (NXG), Rasmala (RMA), and Investec Group (INVP). These companies are all part of the "capital markets" industry.
ADVFN vs.
Jarvis Securities (LON:JIM) and ADVFN (LON:AFN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
0.3% of Jarvis Securities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of ADVFN shares are owned by institutional investors. 60.4% of Jarvis Securities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 53.0% of ADVFN shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, ADVFN had 3 more articles in the media than Jarvis Securities. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ADVFN and 0 mentions for Jarvis Securities. ADVFN's average media sentiment score of 0.11 beat Jarvis Securities' score of 0.00 indicating that ADVFN is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Jarvis Securities pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.9%. ADVFN pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 37.2%. Jarvis Securities pays out 101.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ADVFN pays out -93.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ADVFN is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Jarvis Securities has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% 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.
Jarvis Securities has a net margin of 25.37% compared to ADVFN's net margin of -20.67%. Jarvis Securities' return on equity of 58.05% beat ADVFN's return on equity.
Jarvis Securities has higher revenue and earnings than ADVFN. ADVFN is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Jarvis Securities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jarvis Securities received 56 more outperform votes than ADVFN when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.90% of users gave Jarvis Securities an outperform vote while only 68.67% of users gave ADVFN an outperform vote.
Summary
Jarvis Securities beats ADVFN on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:AFN) was last updated on 3/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
