ORCH vs. 47IE, LEND, BANK, VCAP, IVPB, INV, KZG, PRIM, FBH, and TEAM
Should you be buying Orchard Funding Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Orchard Funding Group include S&U (47IE), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), Fiinu (BANK), Vector Capital (VCAP), Invesco Select Balanced Risk Alloc (IVPB), Investment (INV), Kazera Global (KZG), Primorus Investments (PRIM), FBD (FBH), and TEAM (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Orchard Funding Group (LON:ORCH) and S&U (LON:47IE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, valuation and community ranking.
Orchard Funding Group has a net margin of 26.24% compared to S&U's net margin of 25.34%. S&U's return on equity of 11.08% beat Orchard Funding Group's return on equity.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Orchard Funding Group. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Orchard Funding Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Orchard Funding Group has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
21.0% of Orchard Funding Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. 57.3% of Orchard Funding Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Orchard Funding Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Orchard Funding Group pays out 3,750.0% 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 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Orchard Funding Group had 1 more articles in the media than S&U. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Orchard Funding Group and 1 mentions for S&U. Orchard Funding Group's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat S&U's score of 0.00 indicating that Orchard Funding Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Orchard Funding Group received 14 more outperform votes than S&U when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.96% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 67.01% of users gave Orchard Funding Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Orchard Funding Group beats S&U on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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