47IE vs. TSL, BANK, GLIF, ORCH, VCAP, LEND, PCF, ZAIM, AMGO, and MCL
Should you be buying S&U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&U include ThinkSmart (TSL), Fiinu (BANK), GLI Finance (GLIF), Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Vector Capital (VCAP), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), PCF Group (PCF), Adalan Ventures (ZAIM), Amigo (AMGO), and Morses Club (MCL). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
S&U vs.
S&U (LON:47IE) and ThinkSmart (LON:TSL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. ThinkSmart pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.05 per share. S&U pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ThinkSmart pays out -0.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
S&U has a net margin of 28.21% compared to ThinkSmart's net margin of 0.00%. S&U's return on equity of 8.13% beat ThinkSmart's return on equity.
1.1% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ThinkSmart'saverage media sentiment score.
S&U received 86 more outperform votes than ThinkSmart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.96% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 61.22% of users gave ThinkSmart an outperform vote.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than ThinkSmart. ThinkSmart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&U, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
S&U beats ThinkSmart on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:47IE) was last updated on 5/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
