FCH vs. HAT, LIT, VANQ, IPF, SUS, EQLS, TRU, ASAI, DFCH, and JSGI
Should you be buying Funding Circle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Funding Circle include H&T Group (HAT), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), International Personal Finance (IPF), S&U (SUS), Equals Group (EQLS), TruFin (TRU), ASA International Group (ASAI), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
H&T Group (LON:HAT) and Funding Circle (LON:FCH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
H&T Group has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Funding Circle has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H&T Group has a net margin of 9.55% compared to H&T Group's net margin of -22.77%. Funding Circle's return on equity of 12.35% beat H&T Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, H&T Group had 9 more articles in the media than Funding Circle. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for H&T Group and 2 mentions for Funding Circle. Funding Circle's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat H&T Group's score of 0.00 indicating that H&T Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
H&T Group has higher revenue and earnings than Funding Circle. Funding Circle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than H&T Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
H&T Group received 127 more outperform votes than Funding Circle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.86% of users gave Funding Circle an outperform vote while only 56.13% of users gave H&T Group an outperform vote.
55.8% of H&T Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.0% of Funding Circle shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of H&T Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.2% of Funding Circle shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
H&T Group beats Funding Circle on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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