Ingenta (ING) Competitors

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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FCAP or ING?

Ingenta received 122 more outperform votes than Cavendish Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave Cavendish Financial an outperform vote while only 69.43% of users gave Ingenta an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Cavendish Financial	Outperform Votes 12 70.59%	Underperform Votes 5 29.41%
Ingenta	Outperform Votes 134 69.43%	Underperform Votes 59 30.57%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, FCAP or ING?

Ingenta has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Cavendish Financial. Cavendish Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingenta, 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
Cavendish Financial	£32.15M	0.00	-£5.52M	-£0.03	N/A
Ingenta	£9.85M	0.83	£1.34M	£9.77	5.93

Is FCAP or ING a better dividend stock?

Cavendish Financial pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share. Ingenta pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Cavendish Financial pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingenta pays out 40.9% 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.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in FCAP or ING?

9.2% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of Ingenta shares are held by institutional investors. 85.6% of Cavendish Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.4% of Ingenta shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, FCAP or ING?

Cavendish Financial has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingenta has a beta of 0.16, meaning that its share price is 84% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FCAP or ING more profitable?

Ingenta has a net margin of 13.58% compared to Cavendish Financial's net margin of -17.16%. Ingenta's return on equity of 23.09% beat Cavendish Financial's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cavendish Financial	-17.16%	-18.69%	-9.31%
Ingenta	13.58%	23.09%	7.54%

Does the media refer more to FCAP or ING?

In the previous week, Cavendish Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Ingenta'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Cavendish Financial	Neutral
Ingenta	Neutral

Summary

Ingenta beats Cavendish Financial on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.