Foresight Solar (FSFL) Competitors

Foresight Solar (LON:FSFL) and AJ Bell (LON:AJB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do analysts rate FSFL or AJB?

AJ Bell has a consensus price target of GBX 385.50, indicating a potential downside of 16.38%. Given AJ Bell's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe AJ Bell is more favorable than Foresight Solar.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Foresight Solar	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
AJ Bell	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Is FSFL or AJB a better dividend stock?

Foresight Solar pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. AJ Bell pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Foresight Solar pays out -40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AJ Bell pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Foresight Solar is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FSFL or AJB?

Foresight Solar received 103 more outperform votes than AJ Bell when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.67% of users gave Foresight Solar an outperform vote while only 42.53% of users gave AJ Bell an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Foresight Solar	Outperform Votes 140 66.67%	Underperform Votes 70 33.33%
AJ Bell	Outperform Votes 37 42.53%	Underperform Votes 50 57.47%

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, FSFL or AJB?

AJ Bell has higher revenue and earnings than Foresight Solar. Foresight Solar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AJ Bell, 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
Foresight Solar	£28.20M	16.42	-£9.28M	-£0.02	-4,075.00
AJ Bell	£244.98M	7.76	£81.33M	£0.20	2,305.00

Which has more risk and volatility, FSFL or AJB?

Foresight Solar has a beta of 0.27, meaning that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AJ Bell has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FSFL or AJB more profitable?

AJ Bell has a net margin of 33.20% compared to Foresight Solar's net margin of 0.00%. AJ Bell's return on equity of 49.62% beat Foresight Solar's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Foresight Solar	N/A	-1.26%	-0.79%
AJ Bell	33.20%	49.62%	36.07%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in FSFL or AJB?

59.0% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of AJ Bell shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Foresight Solar shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.6% of AJ Bell shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media refer more to FSFL or AJB?

In the previous week, Foresight Solar had 1 more articles in the media than AJ Bell. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Foresight Solar and 0 mentions for AJ Bell. Foresight Solar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat AJ Bell's score of -0.12 indicating that Foresight Solar is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Foresight Solar	Neutral
AJ Bell	Neutral

Summary

AJ Bell beats Foresight Solar on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.