Fair Oaks Income (FA17) Competitors

Fair Oaks Income (LON:FA17) and Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FA17 or CGT?

Capital Gearing received 120 more outperform votes than Fair Oaks Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Fair Oaks Income an outperform vote while only 77.56% of users gave Capital Gearing an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Fair Oaks Income	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Capital Gearing	Outperform Votes 121 77.56%	Underperform Votes 35 22.44%

Is FA17 or CGT a better dividend stock?

Fair Oaks Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,403.5%. Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Fair Oaks Income pays out 11,759.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Gearing pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is FA17 or CGT more profitable?

Capital Gearing has a net margin of 255.48% compared to Fair Oaks Income's net margin of 97.06%. Fair Oaks Income's return on equity of 12.24% beat Capital Gearing's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fair Oaks Income	97.06%	12.24%	N/A
Capital Gearing	255.48%	5.25%	-2.63%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in FA17 or CGT?

2.5% of Fair Oaks Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of Capital Gearing shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Fair Oaks Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Capital Gearing shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer FA17 or CGT?

In the previous week, Capital Gearing had 1 more articles in the media than Fair Oaks Income. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Capital Gearing and 0 mentions for Fair Oaks Income. Capital Gearing's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Fair Oaks Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Capital Gearing is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Fair Oaks Income	Neutral
Capital Gearing	Positive

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, FA17 or CGT?

Fair Oaks Income has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Gearing. Fair Oaks Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Gearing, 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
Fair Oaks Income	£3.05B	0.08	£2.96B	£0.07	8.38
Capital Gearing	£17.92M	49.82	£45.77M	£245.96	19.52

Summary

Capital Gearing beats Fair Oaks Income on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.