EQLS vs. SUS, IPF, HAT, FCH, VANQ, LIT, TRU, ADIG, FJV, and MTRO
Should you be buying Equals Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equals Group include S&U (SUS), International Personal Finance (IPF), H&T Group (HAT), Funding Circle (FCH), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), TruFin (TRU), abrdn Diversified Income & Growth (ADIG), Fidelity Japan Trust (FJV), and Metro Bank (MTRO). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Equals Group (LON:EQLS) and S&U (LON:SUS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
61.1% of Equals Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 7.4% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. 33.5% of Equals Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 82.7% of S&U shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Equals Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 168 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Equals Group pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. S&U pays out 6,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
S&U has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Equals Group. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Equals Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Equals Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 163, indicating a potential upside of 38.72%. Given Equals Group's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Equals Group is more favorable than S&U.
In the previous week, S&U had 9 more articles in the media than Equals Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for S&U and 0 mentions for Equals Group. Equals Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat S&U's score of -0.08 indicating that Equals Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
S&U received 220 more outperform votes than Equals Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 85.71% of users gave Equals Group an outperform vote while only 70.22% of users gave S&U an outperform vote.
S&U has a net margin of 39.80% compared to Equals Group's net margin of 8.82%. Equals Group's return on equity of 16.49% beat S&U's return on equity.
Equals Group has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Equals Group beats S&U on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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