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S&U (47IE) Competitors

GBX 0.65 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 05/21/2025

47IE vs. TSL, BANK, GLIF, ORCH, VCAP, PCF, LEND, 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), PCF Group (PCF), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), 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 investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
S&U28.21% 8.13% 4.18%
ThinkSmart N/A N/A N/A

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
S&UOutperform Votes
116
72.96%
Underperform Votes
43
27.04%
ThinkSmartOutperform Votes
30
61.22%
Underperform Votes
19
38.78%

1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
S&U£66.69M0.00£18.82M£312.700.00
ThinkSmart£3.48M0.00N/A-£31.50N/A

S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 615.4%. 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.

In the previous week, S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ThinkSmart'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
S&U Neutral
ThinkSmart Neutral

Summary

S&U beats ThinkSmart on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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47IE vs. The Competition

MetricS&UCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£78,000.00£288.91M£5.31B£2.63B
Dividend Yield6.06%7.69%4.18%5.05%
P/E Ratio0.0022.5312.86129.36
Price / Sales0.0094.071,721.67221,585.85
Price / Cash6.9115.3349.6228.03
Price / Book0.003.401.353.79
Net Income£18.82M£56.71M£1.22B£5.88B
7 Day PerformanceN/A-2.77%0.02%0.30%
1 Month PerformanceN/A4.54%10.42%21.30%
1 Year Performance-99.00%21.12%13.59%129.43%

S&U Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
47IE
S&U
N/AGBX 0.65
flat
N/AN/A£78,000.00£66.69M0.00224
TSL
ThinkSmart
N/AN/AN/AN/A£30.69M£3.48M-0.90N/A
BANK
Fiinu
N/AGBX 7.03
-4.7%
N/A+650.6%£19.32MN/A4.094Earnings Report
Gap Down
GLIF
GLI Finance
N/AN/AN/AN/A£12.83M£6.20M-0.5725Gap Up
High Trading Volume
ORCH
Orchard Funding Group
N/AGBX 38.80
+6.3%
N/A+23.6%£8.29MN/A554.2922Gap Up
VCAP
Vector Capital
N/AN/AN/AN/A£4.52M£5.41M333.338Gap Up
PCF
PCF Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.17M£19.54M-0.79125Gap Down
High Trading Volume
LEND
Sancus Lending Group
N/AGBX 0.42
-15.4%
N/A-7.8%£2.47M£11.33M-42.3031Gap Down
ZAIM
Adalan Ventures
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.31M£4.94M120.00128
AMGO
Amigo
N/AGBX 0.29
+6.2%
N/A+3.6%£1.67M£2.69M-0.14124Gap Up
MCL
Morses Club
N/AN/AN/AN/A£282,000.00£100.06M21.00560Gap Up

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This page (LON:47IE) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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