47IE vs. MCL, NSF, PKG, PFG, FCH, IPF, EQLS, FFX, SUS, and HAT
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), Equals Group (EQLS), Fairfx Group (FFX), S&U (SUS), and H&T Group (HAT). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
S&U vs.
Morses Club (LON:MCL) and S&U (LON:47IE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Morses Club's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled S&U'saverage media sentiment score.
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 615.4%. 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 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.
Morses Club received 168 more outperform votes than S&U when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.01% of users gave Morses Club an outperform vote while only 72.96% of users gave S&U an outperform vote.
26.4% of Morses Club shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. 45.3% of Morses Club shares are held by company 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.
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.
Morses Club has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Morses Club and S&U tied by winning 7 of the 14 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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This page (LON:47IE) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
