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S&U (47IE) Competitors

GBX 65 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 07/31/2025

47IE vs. MCL, NSF, PKG, PFG, FCH, IPF, HAT, EQLS, VANQ, and FFX

Should you be buying S&U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&U include Morses Club (MCL), Non-Standard Finance (NSF), Park Group (PKG), Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), Funding Circle (FCH), International Personal Finance (IPF), H&T Group (HAT), Equals Group (EQLS), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), and Fairfx Group (FFX). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.

S&U vs. Its Competitors

Morses Club (LON:MCL) and S&U (LON:47IE) are both small-cap credit services industry companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Morses Club has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.

S&U has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Morses Club. Morses Club is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&U, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Morses Club£100.06M0.00-£51.53M£0.01N/A
S&U£66.69M0.12£18.82M£312.700.21

26.4% of Morses Club shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.3% of Morses Club shares are owned by 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.

In the previous week, Morses Club's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled S&U'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Morses Club Neutral
S&U Neutral

Morses Club pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.01 per share. S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Morses Club pays out 100.0% 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 pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. S&U is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

S&U has a net margin of 28.21% compared to Morses Club's net margin of -51.50%. S&U's return on equity of 8.13% beat Morses Club's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Morses Club-51.50% -122.39% -58.54%
S&U 28.21%8.13%4.18%

Summary

S&U beats Morses Club on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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47IE vs. The Competition

MetricS&UCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£7.80M£386.86M£6.30B£3.03B
Dividend Yield6.06%15.49%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio0.2131.0414.04176.75
Price / Sales0.1295.541,848.52264,362.45
Price / Cash6.9114.43127.5327.97
Price / Book0.033.382.244.53
Net Income£18.82M£53.80M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance9,900.00%201.07%6.05%12.58%
1 Month PerformanceN/A0.50%1.79%6.10%
1 Year PerformanceN/A31.29%19.31%71.60%

S&U Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
47IE
S&U
N/AGBX 65
flat
N/A-99.0%£7.80M£66.69M0.21224
MCL
Morses Club
N/AN/AN/AN/A£282K£100.06M21.00560Gap Up
NSF
Non-Standard Finance
N/AN/AN/AN/A£125K£69.63M-0.22549
PKG
Park Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£0.00N/A0.0015,100
PFG
Vanquis Banking Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£571.19M£446.50M548.7819,300
FCH
Funding Circle
N/AGBX 139.60
+0.4%
N/A+18.4%£417.34M£27.57M-75.731,101News Coverage
Positive News
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 182
-0.5%
N/A+40.9%£395.53M£695.42M8.826,230Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
HAT
H&T Group
N/AGBX 644
flat
GBX 545
-15.4%
+62.8%£280.62M£240.86M12.741,625
EQLS
Equals Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£265.55M£112.32M32.12397
VANQ
Vanquis Banking Group
1.288 of 5 stars
GBX 101.80
+0.4%
GBX 83
-18.5%
+71.5%£258.14M£454.39M-8.261,478News Coverage
Positive News
FFX
Fairfx Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£204.20M£26.09M77.8139,000

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This page (LON:47IE) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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