Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML) Competitors

Fidelity Emerging Markets (LON:FEML) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of FEML or HGT?

83.5% of Fidelity Emerging Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Fidelity Emerging Markets shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of HgCapital Trust 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.

Is FEML or HGT more profitable?

Fidelity Emerging Markets has a net margin of 313.38% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 91.03%. Fidelity Emerging Markets' return on equity of 16.22% beat HgCapital Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fidelity Emerging Markets	313.38%	16.22%	2.59%
HgCapital Trust	91.03%	11.93%	6.88%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FEML or HGT?

HgCapital Trust received 110 more outperform votes than Fidelity Emerging Markets when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Fidelity Emerging Markets	N/A	N/A
HgCapital Trust	Outperform Votes 110 62.15%	Underperform Votes 67 37.85%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, FEML or HGT?

HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity Emerging Markets. Fidelity Emerging Markets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, 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
Fidelity Emerging Markets	£41.50M	13.72	£130.04M	£121.84	5.47
HgCapital Trust	£312.64M	7.48	£284.58M	£60.49	8.33

Is FEML or HGT a better dividend stock?

Fidelity Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Fidelity Emerging Markets pays out 12.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HgCapital Trust pays out 11.6% 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.

Does the media favor FEML or HGT?

In the previous week, HgCapital Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Fidelity Emerging Markets. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for HgCapital Trust and 0 mentions for Fidelity Emerging Markets. HgCapital Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.64 beat Fidelity Emerging Markets' score of 0.00 indicating that HgCapital Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Fidelity Emerging Markets	Neutral
HgCapital Trust	Very Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, FEML or HGT?

Fidelity Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, suggesting that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HgCapital Trust beats Fidelity Emerging Markets on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.