SUS vs. PFG, IPF, FCH, EQLS, FFX, HAT, VANQ, LIT, PARK, and ASAI
Should you be buying S&U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&U include Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), International Personal Finance (IPF), Funding Circle (FCH), Equals Group (EQLS), Fairfx Group (FFX), H&T Group (HAT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Park Group (PARK), and ASA International Group (ASAI). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Vanquis Banking Group (LON:PFG) and S&U (LON:SUS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
S&U has a consensus target price of GBX 2,100, indicating a potential upside of 15.70%.
Vanquis Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share. S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 180 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Vanquis Banking Group pays out 4,146.3% 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 8,612.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, S&U had 4 more articles in the media than Vanquis Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for S&U and 0 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group. S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Vanquis Banking Group's score of 0.00 indicating that S&U is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
S&U has a net margin of 33.39% compared to Vanquis Banking Group's net margin of 8.73%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 17.19% beat S&U's return on equity.
84.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 88.9% of S&U shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Vanquis Banking Group received 239 more outperform votes than S&U when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.83% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 60.52% of users gave Vanquis Banking Group an outperform vote.
Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vanquis Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than S&U. Vanquis Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&U, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
S&U beats Vanquis Banking Group on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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