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Funding Circle (FCH) Competitors

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GBX 115.80 +2.80 (+2.48%)
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FCH vs. PFG, IPF, EQLS, FFX, SUS, HAT, VANQ, ASAI, LIT, and PARK

Should you be buying Funding Circle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Funding Circle include Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), International Personal Finance (IPF), Equals Group (EQLS), Fairfx Group (FFX), S&U (SUS), H&T Group (HAT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), ASA International Group (ASAI), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), and Park Group (PARK). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.

Funding Circle vs.

Funding Circle (LON:FCH) and Vanquis Banking Group (LON:PFG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.

Vanquis Banking Group has a net margin of 8.73% compared to Funding Circle's net margin of -19.85%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 17.19% beat Funding Circle's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Funding Circle-19.85% -13.75% -3.89%
Vanquis Banking Group 8.73%17.19%4.14%

Vanquis Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Funding Circle. Funding Circle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vanquis Banking Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Funding Circle£27.57M12.56-£5.47M-£1.84-62.82
Vanquis Banking Group£446.50M0.00£103.50M£0.41N/A

68.0% of Funding Circle shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. 35.2% of Funding Circle shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held by insiders. 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.

Funding Circle has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Funding Circle's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Vanquis Banking Group'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Funding Circle Neutral
Vanquis Banking Group Neutral

Vanquis Banking Group received 465 more outperform votes than Funding Circle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.86% of users gave Funding Circle an outperform vote while only 60.52% of users gave Vanquis Banking Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Funding CircleOutperform Votes
24
64.86%
Underperform Votes
13
35.14%
Vanquis Banking GroupOutperform Votes
489
60.52%
Underperform Votes
319
39.48%

Summary

Vanquis Banking Group beats Funding Circle on 10 of the 12 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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FCH vs. The Competition

MetricFunding CircleCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£346.19M£319.13M£3.85B£2.59B
Dividend YieldN/A15.31%4.21%4.97%
P/E Ratio-62.8221.9613.02133.94
Price / Sales12.5694.551,701.33232,281.61
Price / Cash0.6814.6650.3828.12
Price / Book9.033.393.424.55
Net Income-£5.47M£54.69M£1.24B£5.84B
7 Day Performance4.32%-0.10%1.16%3.46%
1 Month Performance6.61%1.41%13.62%10.62%
1 Year Performance63.10%21.51%12.86%117.70%

Funding Circle Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCH
Funding Circle
N/AGBX 115.80
+2.5%
N/A+68.7%£346.19M£27.57M-62.821,101Gap Down
PFG
Vanquis Banking Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£571.19M£446.50M548.7819,300
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 134.40
+0.6%
N/A+37.8%£292.08M£695.42M6.516,230Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
EQLS
Equals Group
N/AGBX 139.50
flat
N/AN/A£265.55M£112.32M32.12397
FFX
Fairfx Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£204.20M£26.09M77.8139,000
SUS
S&U
1.8252 of 5 stars
GBX 1,480
+3.5%
GBX 1,700
+14.9%
-25.6%£175.41M£65.05M9.32224Gap Up
HAT
H&T Group
N/AGBX 394
+3.1%
GBX 545
+38.3%
-7.8%£171.69M£240.86M7.801,625
VANQ
Vanquis Banking Group
1.9658 of 5 stars
GBX 58.90
-3.4%
GBX 66
+12.1%
+36.8%£149.36M£454.39M-4.781,478Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
ASAI
ASA International Group
N/AGBX 105
+6.9%
N/A+70.0%£133.53M£6.56B0.2813,433Gap Up
LIT
Litigation Capital Management
2.3943 of 5 stars
GBX 46
-2.1%
GBX 182
+295.7%
-58.4%£104.23M£204.77M7.89N/A
PARK
Park Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£94.57M£110.39M10.57N/A

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