VANQ vs. LIT, FCH, TRU, HAT, ASAI, DFCH, TIME, SUS, IPF, and EQLS
Should you be buying Vanquis Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vanquis Banking Group include Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Funding Circle (FCH), TruFin (TRU), H&T Group (HAT), 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.
Litigation Capital Management (LON:LIT) and Vanquis Banking Group (LON:VANQ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
Litigation Capital Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Vanquis Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.5%. 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 pays out -30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vanquis Banking Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
15.8% of Litigation Capital Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. 19.1% of Litigation Capital Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.2% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Litigation Capital Management has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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.
In the previous week, Litigation Capital Management had 1 more articles in the media than Vanquis Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Litigation Capital Management and 0 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group. Litigation Capital Management's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Vanquis Banking Group's score of -0.42 indicating that Vanquis Banking Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Litigation Capital Management has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more 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.
Vanquis Banking Group has a consensus target price of GBX 397.50, indicating a potential upside of 728.99%. Given Litigation Capital Management's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vanquis Banking Group is more favorable than Litigation Capital Management.
Summary
Litigation Capital Management beats Vanquis Banking Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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