Fortune Minerals (FT) Competitors

Cathedral Energy Services (TSE:CET) and Fortune Minerals (TSE:FT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Is CET or FT more profitable?

Cathedral Energy Services has a net margin of 3.71% compared to Fortune Minerals' net margin of -13,690.93%. Fortune Minerals' return on equity of 30.09% beat Cathedral Energy Services' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cathedral Energy Services	3.71%	12.31%	8.07%
Fortune Minerals	-13,690.93%	30.09%	-5.38%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CET or FT?

14.1% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.6% of Cathedral Energy Services shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.9% of Fortune Minerals shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, CET or FT?

Cathedral Energy Services has a beta of 2.64, meaning that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fortune Minerals has a beta of 0.01, meaning that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts recommend CET or FT?

Fortune Minerals has a consensus price target of C$0.42, indicating a potential upside of 342.11%. Given Fortune Minerals' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Fortune Minerals is more favorable than Cathedral Energy Services.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cathedral Energy Services	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Fortune Minerals	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is CET or FT a better dividend stock?

Cathedral Energy Services pays an annual dividend of C$0.16 per share. Fortune Minerals pays an annual dividend of C$0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 400.0%. Cathedral Energy Services pays out 200.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fortune Minerals pays out -7,709.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fortune Minerals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, CET or FT?

Cathedral Energy Services has higher revenue and earnings than Fortune Minerals. Fortune Minerals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cathedral Energy Services, 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
Cathedral Energy Services	C$577.31M	0.00	C$21.42M	C$0.08	N/A
Fortune Minerals	C$23.50K	2,345.51	-C$3.22M	-C$0.00	-19.27

Does the media favor CET or FT?

In the previous week, Fortune Minerals had 1 more articles in the media than Cathedral Energy Services. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Fortune Minerals and 0 mentions for Cathedral Energy Services. Fortune Minerals' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Cathedral Energy Services' score of 0.00 indicating that Fortune Minerals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Cathedral Energy Services	Neutral
Fortune Minerals	Positive

Summary

Cathedral Energy Services beats Fortune Minerals on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.