LIT vs. VANQ, HAT, EQLS, SUS, FFX, ASAI, TRU, PARK, APP, and DFCH
Should you be buying Litigation Capital Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Litigation Capital Management include Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), H&T Group (HAT), Equals Group (EQLS), S&U (SUS), Fairfx Group (FFX), ASA International Group (ASAI), TruFin (TRU), Park Group (PARK), Appreciate Group (APP), and Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Litigation Capital Management vs. Its Competitors
Litigation Capital Management (LON:LIT) and Vanquis Banking Group (LON:VANQ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Litigation Capital Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Vanquis Banking Group. Vanquis Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Litigation Capital Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Litigation Capital Management has a net margin of 12.80% compared to Vanquis Banking Group's net margin of -6.88%. Litigation Capital Management's return on equity of 6.79% beat Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity.
Litigation Capital Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Vanquis Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Litigation Capital Management pays out 17.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vanquis Banking Group pays out -48.7% 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. Vanquis Banking Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Litigation Capital Management currently has a consensus price target of GBX 182, indicating a potential upside of 382.76%. Vanquis Banking Group has a consensus price target of GBX 83, indicating a potential downside of 27.19%. Given Litigation Capital Management's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Litigation Capital Management is more favorable than Vanquis Banking Group.
23.3% of Litigation Capital Management shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Litigation Capital Management shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Litigation Capital Management has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Litigation Capital Management had 1 more articles in the media than Vanquis Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Litigation Capital Management and 0 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group. Litigation Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Vanquis Banking Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Litigation Capital Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Litigation Capital Management beats Vanquis Banking Group on 11 of the 17 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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This page (LON:LIT) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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