TIME vs. DFCH, VCAP, ASAI, TRU, LIT, VANQ, LINV, CLC, AGFX, and CBA
Should you be buying Time Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Time Finance include Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Vector Capital (VCAP), ASA International Group (ASAI), TruFin (TRU), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), LendInvest (LINV), Calculus VCT (CLC), Argentex Group (AGFX), and CEIBA Investments (CBA). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Distribution Finance Capital (LON:DFCH) and Time Finance (LON:TIME) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
In the previous week, Time Finance had 30 more articles in the media than Distribution Finance Capital. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Time Finance and 0 mentions for Distribution Finance Capital. Distribution Finance Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Time Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Time Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Time Finance has a net margin of 13.66% compared to Time Finance's net margin of 11.66%. Distribution Finance Capital's return on equity of 6.34% beat Time Finance's return on equity.
Time Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Distribution Finance Capital. Time Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Distribution Finance Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Distribution Finance Capital received 19 more outperform votes than Time Finance when rated by MarketBeat users.
69.0% of Distribution Finance Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of Time Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 15.9% of Distribution Finance Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of Time Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Distribution Finance Capital has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Time Finance has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Time Finance beats Distribution Finance Capital on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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