CRE vs. PLUS, PHLL, VMUK, JGGI, RCP, BUR, EMG, TBCG, BPT, and HICL
Should you be buying Conduit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Conduit include Plus500 (PLUS), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Virgin Money UK (VMUK), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Burford Capital (BUR), Man Group (EMG), TBC Bank Group (TBCG), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Conduit vs. Its Competitors
Plus500 (LON:PLUS) and Conduit (LON:CRE) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Plus500 presently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,782, suggesting a potential downside of 18.32%. Conduit has a consensus price target of GBX 698.33, suggesting a potential upside of 83.05%. Given Conduit's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Conduit is more favorable than Plus500.
In the previous week, Plus500 and Plus500 both had 1 articles in the media. Plus500's average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Conduit's score of -0.15 indicating that Plus500 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Plus500 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Conduit. Conduit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Plus500, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Plus500 pays an annual dividend of GBX 66 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Conduit pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Plus500 pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Conduit pays out 26.4% 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.
Plus500 has a beta of 0.2, meaning that its stock price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Conduit has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Plus500 has a net margin of 36.45% compared to Conduit's net margin of 30.25%. Plus500's return on equity of 39.06% beat Conduit's return on equity.
51.2% of Plus500 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.4% of Conduit shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Plus500 shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Conduit shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Plus500 received 96 more outperform votes than Conduit when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.37% of users gave Conduit an outperform vote while only 72.84% of users gave Plus500 an outperform vote.
Summary
Plus500 beats Conduit on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:CRE) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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