VEL vs. SBSI, PFC, CFX, FCAP, SOS, ING, IX, NWT, AGM, and STEL
Should you be buying Velocity Composites stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Velocity Composites include Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Petrofac (PFC), Colefax Group (CFX), Cavendish Financial (FCAP), Sosandar (SOS), Ingenta (ING), i(x) Net Zero (IX), Newmark Security (NWT), Applied Graphene Materials (AGM), and Stellar Diamonds (STEL). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (LON:SBSI) and Velocity Composites (LON:VEL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, Velocity Composites had 1 more articles in the media than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Velocity Composites and 0 mentions for Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust. Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Velocity Composites' score of 0.00 indicating that Velocity Composites is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Velocity Composites has a consensus price target of GBX 70, indicating a potential upside of 62.79%. Given Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Velocity Composites is more favorable than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust.
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has a net margin of 64.53% compared to Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's net margin of -19.15%. Velocity Composites' return on equity of 1.72% beat Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's return on equity.
Velocity Composites received 89 more outperform votes than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has a beta of -0.13, meaning that its share price is 113% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Velocity Composites has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Velocity Composites. Velocity Composites is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
72.1% of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.7% of Velocity Composites shares are held by institutional investors. 10.8% of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 38.4% of Velocity Composites shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust and Velocity Composites tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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