LINV vs. CLC, BRIG, JEMA, AGFX, CBA, TIME, NBMI, OFG, JGC, and STM
Should you be buying LendInvest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LendInvest include Calculus VCT (CLC), BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG), JPMorgan Emerg E, ME & Africa Sec (JEMA), Argentex Group (AGFX), CEIBA Investments (CBA), Time Finance (TIME), NB Global Monthly Income Fund (NBMI), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Jupiter Green (JGC), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Calculus VCT (LON:CLC) and LendInvest (LON:LINV) 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 risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
Calculus VCT received 8 more outperform votes than LendInvest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave LendInvest an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Calculus VCT an outperform vote.
12.5% of LendInvest shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Calculus VCT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 73.2% of LendInvest shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Calculus VCT has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LendInvest has a beta of 0.13, meaning that its share price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LendInvest's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Calculus VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Calculus VCT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LendInvest. LendInvest is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Calculus VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Calculus VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. LendInvest pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.5%. Calculus VCT pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LendInvest pays out -4,545.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LendInvest is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Calculus VCT has a net margin of -9.46% compared to Calculus VCT's net margin of -34.66%. LendInvest's return on equity of -0.22% beat Calculus VCT's return on equity.
Summary
Calculus VCT beats LendInvest on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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