TIME vs. HAT, VANQ, LIT, PARK, ASAI, APP, DFCH, UEX, TRU, and FFI
Should you be buying Time Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Time Finance include H&T Group (HAT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Park Group (PARK), ASA International Group (ASAI), Appreciate Group (APP), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Urban Exposure (UEX), TruFin (TRU), and FFI (FFI). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
H&T Group (LON:HAT) and Time Finance (LON:TIME) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
H&T Group received 152 more outperform votes than Time Finance when rated by MarketBeat users.
H&T Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Time Finance has a beta of 1.69, meaning that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Time Finance had 19 more articles in the media than H&T Group. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Time Finance and 1 mentions for H&T Group. Time Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat H&T Group's score of 0.06 indicating that Time Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
H&T Group presently has a consensus target price of GBX 531, suggesting a potential upside of 41.98%. Given H&T Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe H&T Group is more favorable than Time Finance.
H&T Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 18 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Time Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. H&T Group pays out 3,600.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Time Finance pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
H&T Group has higher revenue and earnings than Time Finance. H&T Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Time Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
47.0% of H&T Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of Time Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 10.4% of H&T Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.5% of Time Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Time Finance has a net margin of 13.66% compared to H&T Group's net margin of 9.26%. H&T Group's return on equity of 12.51% beat Time Finance's return on equity.
Summary
H&T Group beats Time Finance on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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