VCAP vs. 47IE, ORCH, LEND, TIME, DFCH, BPCR, QBT, RQIH, TV2H, and IX
Should you be buying Vector Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vector Capital include S&U (47IE), Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Sancus Lending Group (LEND), Time Finance (TIME), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT), R&Q Insurance (RQIH), Thames Ventures VCT 2 Healthcare Shs (TV2H), and i(x) Net Zero (IX). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
S&U (LON:47IE) and Vector Capital (LON:VCAP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Vector Capital has a net margin of 34.21% compared to Vector Capital's net margin of 25.34%. Vector Capital's return on equity of 11.08% beat S&U's return on equity.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Vector Capital. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vector Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&U received 116 more outperform votes than Vector Capital when rated by MarketBeat users.
1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.5% of Vector Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 80.0% of Vector Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share. Vector Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. S&U pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vector Capital pays out 7,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
S&U has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vector Capital has a beta of -0.08, meaning that its share price is 108% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Vector Capital had 1 more articles in the media than S&U. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Vector Capital and 1 mentions for S&U. S&U's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Vector Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Vector Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
S&U beats Vector Capital on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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