NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) Competitors

Personal Assets (LON:PNL) and NextEnergy Solar Fund (LON:NESF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets received 18 more outperform votes than NextEnergy Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.69% of users gave NextEnergy Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 61.02% of users gave Personal Assets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Personal Assets	Outperform Votes 108 61.02%	Underperform Votes 69 38.98%
NextEnergy Solar Fund	Outperform Votes 90 65.69%	Underperform Votes 47 34.31%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets has higher revenue and earnings than NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Personal Assets, 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
Personal Assets	£66.59M	24.19	£44.26M	£0.12	4,123.77
NextEnergy Solar Fund	-£22.75M	-18.79	-£40.40M	£0.08	904.38

Is PNL or NESF a better dividend stock?

Personal Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Personal Assets pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in PNL or NESF?

46.0% of Personal Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.9% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of Personal Assets shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, PNL or NESF?

Personal Assets has a beta of 0.19, indicating that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NextEnergy Solar Fund has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PNL or NESF more profitable?

Personal Assets has a net margin of 66.46% compared to NextEnergy Solar Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Personal Assets' return on equity of 2.49% beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Personal Assets	66.46%	2.49%	1.96%
NextEnergy Solar Fund	N/A	-5.92%	-2.16%

Does the media refer more to PNL or NESF?

In the previous week, Personal Assets had 1 more articles in the media than NextEnergy Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Personal Assets and 0 mentions for NextEnergy Solar Fund. Personal Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Personal Assets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Personal Assets	Positive
NextEnergy Solar Fund	Neutral

Summary

Personal Assets beats NextEnergy Solar Fund on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.