ORCH vs. 47IE, LEND, BANK, VCAP, IVPB, INV, KZG, PRIM, FBH, and TEAM
Should you be buying Orchard Funding Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orchard Funding Group include S&U (47IE), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), Fiinu (BANK), Vector Capital (VCAP), Invesco Select Balanced Risk Alloc (IVPB), Investment (INV), Kazera Global (KZG), Primorus Investments (PRIM), FBD (FBH), and TEAM (TEAM). 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 businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.
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.
S&U has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Orchard Funding Group has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its share price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share. Orchard Funding Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. S&U pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Orchard Funding Group pays out 3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
1.1% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.0% of Orchard Funding Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.3% of Orchard Funding Group shares 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.
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.
Orchard Funding Group has a net margin of 26.24% compared to Orchard Funding Group's net margin of 25.34%. Orchard Funding Group's return on equity of 11.08% beat S&U's return on equity.
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. S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Orchard Funding Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Orchard Funding Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
S&U and Orchard Funding Group tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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