LIT vs. VANQ, FCH, HAT, TRU, ASAI, DFCH, TIME, SUS, IPF, and EQLS
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), Funding Circle (FCH), H&T Group (HAT), TruFin (TRU), ASA International Group (ASAI), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Time Finance (TIME), S&U (SUS), International Personal Finance (IPF), and Equals Group (EQLS). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Vanquis Banking Group (LON:VANQ) and Litigation Capital Management (LON:LIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
Litigation Capital Management received 21 more outperform votes than Vanquis Banking Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.14% of users gave Litigation Capital Management an outperform vote while only 18.18% of users gave Vanquis Banking Group an outperform vote.
Litigation Capital Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Vanquis Banking Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 397.50, suggesting a potential upside of 719.59%. Given Litigation Capital Management's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Vanquis Banking Group is more favorable than Litigation Capital Management.
Vanquis Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Litigation Capital Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Vanquis Banking Group pays out -30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Litigation Capital Management pays out 1,052.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vanquis Banking Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Vanquis Banking Group had 1 more articles in the media than Litigation Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group and 0 mentions for Litigation Capital Management. Vanquis Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Litigation Capital Management's score of 0.00 indicating that Litigation Capital Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Litigation Capital Management has a beta of 0.47, meaning that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Litigation Capital Management has a net margin of 18.77% compared to Litigation Capital Management's net margin of -1.85%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 30.30% beat Litigation Capital Management's return on equity.
93.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Litigation Capital Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Litigation Capital Management shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Litigation Capital Management beats Vanquis Banking Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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