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GBX 600 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 08/1/2025

VP vs. ZIG, NTG, ASY, AA4, SDY, AVAP, HSS, ANX, DPA, and OPM

Should you be buying VP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VP include Zigup (ZIG), Northgate (NTG), Andrews Sykes Group (ASY), Amedeo Air Four Plus (AA4), Speedy Hire (SDY), Avation (AVAP), HSS Hire Group (HSS), Anexo Group (ANX), DP Aircraft I (DPA), and 1pm plc (OPM.L) (OPM). These companies are all part of the "rental & leasing services" industry.

VP vs. Its Competitors

Zigup (LON:ZIG) and VP (LON:VP) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk and dividends.

Zigup has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VP has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Zigup has a net margin of 6.82% compared to VP's net margin of -1.46%. Zigup's return on equity of 12.09% beat VP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Zigup6.82% 12.09% 5.59%
VP -1.46%-3.50%9.45%

85.4% of Zigup shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.5% of VP shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of Zigup shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 57.5% of VP shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Zigup has higher revenue and earnings than VP. VP is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Zigup, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Zigup£1.82B0.40£123.98M£55.945.89
VP£368.77M0.64-£5.38M-£13.63-44.02

Zigup pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. VP pays an annual dividend of GBX 39 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Zigup pays out 46.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VP pays out -286.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Zigup presently has a consensus price target of GBX 390, suggesting a potential upside of 18.36%. VP has a consensus price target of GBX 832.50, suggesting a potential upside of 38.75%. Given VP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe VP is more favorable than Zigup.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Zigup
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
VP
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

In the previous week, VP had 23 more articles in the media than Zigup. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for VP and 4 mentions for Zigup. Zigup's average media sentiment score of 0.05 beat VP's score of 0.00 indicating that Zigup is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Zigup
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
VP
4 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Zigup beats VP on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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VP vs. The Competition

MetricVPRental & Leasing Services IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£236.77M£3.06B£7.60B£3.03B
Dividend Yield6.84%5.60%4.56%5.02%
P/E Ratio-44.0218.1425.22176.75
Price / Sales0.6463.5698.63264,362.43
Price / Cash30.25107.2627.7627.97
Price / Book1.531.664.344.53
Net Income-£5.38M£240.18M£792.92M£5.90B
7 Day Performance5.08%-2.04%-1.88%12.57%
1 Month Performance-0.66%-0.29%2.31%6.09%
1 Year Performance-11.76%12.09%29.36%71.59%

VP Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VP
VP
2.2195 of 5 stars
GBX 600
flat
GBX 832.50
+38.8%
-11.8%£236.77M£368.77M-44.022,753Trending News
High Trading Volume
ZIG
Zigup
2.7685 of 5 stars
GBX 345
+0.3%
GBX 390
+13.0%
N/A£767.02M£1.82B6.177,906News Coverage
NTG
Northgate
N/AN/AN/AN/A£333.08M£729.28M7.043,000
ASY
Andrews Sykes Group
N/AGBX 508
+1.6%
N/A-7.2%£212.81M£78.35M12.30500Positive News
High Trading Volume
AA4
Amedeo Air Four Plus
N/AGBX 59.28
+0.5%
N/A+31.1%£178.96M£150.39M6.85N/ANews Coverage
Earnings Report
SDY
Speedy Hire
2.8752 of 5 stars
GBX 29.65
+1.5%
GBX 70
+136.1%
-18.3%£137.78M£427.90M50.573,435
AVAP
Avation
3.6512 of 5 stars
GBX 161.50
+0.3%
GBX 270
+67.2%
+22.8%£135.16M£108.07M7.3323
HSS
HSS Hire Group
N/AGBX 9.45
0.0%
N/A+26.4%£65.28M£215.78M-28.472,000News Coverage
ANX
Anexo Group
N/AGBX 53.01
+0.0%
N/A-23.8%£61.77M£136.85M6.61963High Trading Volume
DPA
DP Aircraft I
N/AGBX 0.14
+3.0%
N/A+107.7%£40.28M£1.06B8.94N/AGap Down
OPM
1pm plc (OPM.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£21.69M£29.06M14.12130Gap Up

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This page (LON:VP) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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