Critical Comparison: TOP Financial Group (TOP) & Its Competitors

TOP Financial Group (NASDAQ:TOP) is one of 1,746 publicly-traded companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare TOP Financial Group to similar companies based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation and risk.

Risk and Volatility

TOP Financial Group has a beta of -1.08, meaning that its stock price is 208% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TOP Financial Group’s peers have a beta of 0.82, meaning that their average stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for TOP Financial Group and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TOP Financial Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
TOP Financial Group Competitors	5389	19731	21926	614	2.37

As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 29.27%. Given TOP Financial Group’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TOP Financial Group has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares TOP Financial Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
TOP Financial Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
TOP Financial Group Competitors	273.86%	78.45%	3.53%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares TOP Financial Group and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
TOP Financial Group	$4.72 million	-$1.17 million	-773.50
TOP Financial Group Competitors	$2.38 billion	$396.29 million	7.37

TOP Financial Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than TOP Financial Group. TOP Financial Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.3% of TOP Financial Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.5% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by institutional investors. 85.6% of TOP Financial Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies 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.

Summary

TOP Financial Group peers beat TOP Financial Group on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

TOP Financial Group Company Profile

TOP Financial Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates as an online brokerage company in Hong Kong. It is involved in the trading of local and overseas equities, futures, and options products; and the provision of brokerage and value-added services, including trade order placement and execution, account management, and customer support services. The company provides a range of futures products, such as index futures, forex futures, agricultural product futures, energy futures, and precious metal futures. It also offers stock brokerage, options brokerage, consulting services, currency exchange services, structured note subscriber services, and margin financing services. The company was formerly known as Zhong Yang Financial Group Limited and changed its name to TOP Financial Group Limited in July 2022. TOP Financial Group Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. TOP Financial Group Limited is a subsidiary of Zhong Yang Holdings (BVI) Limited.