TOP Financial Group (TOP) vs. Its Peers Critical Survey

TOP Financial Group (NASDAQ:TOP) is one of 1,750 public companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare TOP Financial Group to similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares TOP Financial Group and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
TOP Financial Group	$4.72 million	-$1.17 million	-836.50
TOP Financial Group Competitors	$2.40 billion	$396.44 million	12.42

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

Risk and Volatility

TOP Financial Group has a beta of -1.12, meaning that its share price is 212% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TOP Financial Group’s competitors have a beta of 0.81, meaning that their average share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for TOP Financial Group and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
TOP Financial Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
TOP Financial Group Competitors	5326	19677	21901	609	2.37

As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 18.71%. Given TOP Financial Group’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe TOP Financial Group has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Profitability

This table compares TOP Financial Group and its competitors’ 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	270.20%	78.11%	3.57%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.3% of TOP Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.6% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by institutional investors. 85.6% of TOP Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

TOP Financial Group competitors 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.