47IE vs. ORCH, LEND, BANK, VCAP, TFG, PEY, TEAM, NBDG, PTSB, and WINV
Should you be buying S&U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&U include Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), Fiinu (BANK), Vector Capital (VCAP), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Princess Private Equity (PEY), TEAM (TEAM), NB Distressed Debt New Glb (NBDG), Permanent TSB Group (PTSB), and Worsley Investors (WINV). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
S&U (LON:47IE) and Orchard Funding Group (LON:ORCH) 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 media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.0% of Orchard Funding Group shares are held by institutional investors. 57.3% of Orchard Funding Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Orchard Funding Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. S&U pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orchard Funding Group pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Orchard Funding Group had 3 more articles in the media than S&U. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Orchard Funding Group and 0 mentions for S&U. Orchard Funding Group's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat S&U's score of 0.00 indicating that Orchard Funding Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Orchard Funding Group. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orchard Funding Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&U has a net margin of 33.39% compared to Orchard Funding Group's net margin of 23.07%. S&U's return on equity of 11.08% beat Orchard Funding Group's return on equity.
S&U has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orchard Funding Group has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Orchard Funding Group received 14 more outperform votes than S&U when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.96% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 67.01% of users gave Orchard Funding Group an outperform vote.
Summary
S&U beats Orchard Funding Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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