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Time Finance (TIME) Competitors

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GBX 55.05 +0.05 (+0.09%)
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TIME vs. SUS, HAT, VANQ, ASAI, LIT, PARK, TRU, APP, DFCH, and UEX

Should you be buying Time Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Time Finance include S&U (SUS), H&T Group (HAT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), ASA International Group (ASAI), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Park Group (PARK), TruFin (TRU), Appreciate Group (APP), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), and Urban Exposure (UEX). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.

Time Finance vs.

S&U (LON:SUS) and Time Finance (LON:TIME) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.

3.8% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.1% of Time Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 88.9% of S&U shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.7% of Time Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 150 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Time Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. S&U pays out 94.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Time Finance pays out 20.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

In the previous week, S&U had 1 more articles in the media than Time Finance. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for S&U and 0 mentions for Time Finance. S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Time Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that S&U is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
S&U Positive
Time Finance Neutral

S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Time Finance. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Time Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
S&U£65.05M2.65£18.35M£158.759.17
Time Finance£32.57M1.54£4.38M£4.8711.31

S&U presently has a consensus price target of GBX 1,700, suggesting a potential upside of 16.84%. Given S&U's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe S&U is more favorable than Time Finance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
S&U
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Time Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

S&U has a net margin of 28.21% compared to Time Finance's net margin of 13.43%. S&U's return on equity of 8.05% beat Time Finance's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
S&U28.21% 8.05% 4.18%
Time Finance 13.43%6.84%2.26%

S&U has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Time Finance has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.

S&U received 250 more outperform votes than Time Finance when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
S&UOutperform Votes
250
69.64%
Underperform Votes
109
30.36%
Time FinanceN/AN/A

Summary

S&U beats Time Finance on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TIME vs. The Competition

MetricTime FinanceCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£50.20M£318.91M£3.85B£2.59B
Dividend Yield6.34%15.31%4.21%4.97%
P/E Ratio11.3121.4512.97133.69
Price / Sales1.5494.691,700.14239,757.82
Price / Cash5.4314.6650.3828.12
Price / Book0.773.383.404.55
Net Income£4.38M£54.69M£1.24B£5.84B
7 Day Performance-0.99%-0.27%1.14%3.43%
1 Month Performance12.35%1.24%10.86%10.59%
1 Year Performance39.37%21.30%12.64%117.06%

Time Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TIME
Time Finance
N/AGBX 55.05
+0.1%
N/A+32.1%£50.20M£32.57M11.31150
SUS
S&U
1.8252 of 5 stars
GBX 1,480
+3.5%
GBX 1,700
+14.9%
-25.6%£175.41M£65.05M9.32224
HAT
H&T Group
N/AGBX 394
+3.1%
GBX 545
+38.3%
-7.8%£171.69M£240.86M7.801,625Gap Up
VANQ
Vanquis Banking Group
1.9658 of 5 stars
GBX 58.90
-3.4%
GBX 66
+12.1%
+36.8%£149.36M£454.39M-4.781,478Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
ASAI
ASA International Group
N/AGBX 105
+6.9%
N/A+70.0%£133.53M£6.56B0.2813,433
LIT
Litigation Capital Management
2.2181 of 5 stars
GBX 46
-2.1%
GBX 182
+295.7%
-58.4%£104.23M£204.77M7.89N/ANegative News
PARK
Park Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£94.57M£110.39M10.57N/A
TRU
TruFin
N/AGBX 75
-1.3%
N/A+7.0%£79.47M£34.97M31.1812,200
APP
Appreciate Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£79.19M£120.97M1,406.671,710
DFCH
Distribution Finance Capital
N/AGBX 33.70
+3.7%
N/A+55.3%£58.68M£49.39M7.93133News Coverage
UEX
Urban Exposure
N/AN/AN/AN/A£49.43M£3.69M-4.6030

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