FGT vs. HRI, OCI, JII, SOI, DGN, BSIF, and POLR
Should you be buying Finsbury Growth & Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finsbury Growth & Income include Herald (HRI), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), and Polar Capital (POLR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Herald (LON:HRI) and Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Herald has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Herald had 1 more articles in the media than Finsbury Growth & Income. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Herald and 2 mentions for Finsbury Growth & Income. Herald's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Finsbury Growth & Income's score of 0.09 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
48.1% of Herald shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Herald shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Herald received 25 more outperform votes than Finsbury Growth & Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote while only 67.76% of users gave Herald an outperform vote.
Finsbury Growth & Income has higher revenue and earnings than Herald. Finsbury Growth & Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Herald, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.62% compared to Finsbury Growth & Income's net margin of 75.97%. Herald's return on equity of 7.05% beat Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity.
Summary
Finsbury Growth & Income beats Herald on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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