Fiske (FKE) Competitors

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

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FKE or FCAP?

Fiske received 62 more outperform votes than Cavendish Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Cavendish Financial an outperform vote while only 61.67% of users gave Fiske an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Fiske	Outperform Votes 74 61.67%	Underperform Votes 46 38.33%
Cavendish Financial	Outperform Votes 12 70.59%	Underperform Votes 5 29.41%

Is FKE or FCAP more profitable?

Fiske has a net margin of 8.83% compared to Cavendish Financial's net margin of -17.16%. Fiske's return on equity of 3.06% beat Cavendish Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fiske	8.83%	3.06%	2.21%
Cavendish Financial	-17.16%	-18.69%	-9.31%

Do insiders and institutionals believe in FKE or FCAP?

8.7% of Fiske shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.2% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 75.7% of Fiske shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 85.6% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is FKE or FCAP a better dividend stock?

Fiske pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Cavendish Financial pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.3%. Fiske pays out 2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cavendish Financial pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cavendish Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more volatility & risk, FKE or FCAP?

Fiske has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cavendish Financial has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, FKE or FCAP?

Fiske has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cavendish Financial. Cavendish Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fiske, 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
Fiske	£6.71M	1.23	N/A	£0.05	1,400.00
Cavendish Financial	£32.15M	0.89	-£5.52M	-£0.03	-263.33

Does the media favor FKE or FCAP?

In the previous week, Fiske had 5 more articles in the media than Cavendish Financial. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Fiske and 0 mentions for Cavendish Financial. Fiske's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Cavendish Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Fiske is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Fiske	Neutral
Cavendish Financial	Neutral

Summary

Fiske beats Cavendish Financial on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.