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Funding Circle (FCH) Competitors

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GBX 130.20 -5.00 (-3.70%)
As of 08/1/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

FCH vs. PFG, IPF, HAT, EQLS, VANQ, SUS, FFX, ASAI, TRU, and PARK

Should you be buying Funding Circle stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Funding Circle include Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), International Personal Finance (IPF), H&T Group (HAT), Equals Group (EQLS), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), S&U (SUS), Fairfx Group (FFX), ASA International Group (ASAI), TruFin (TRU), and Park Group (PARK). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.

Funding Circle vs. Its Competitors

Vanquis Banking Group (LON:PFG) and Funding Circle (LON:FCH) are both small-cap credit services industry companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

Vanquis Banking Group has a net margin of 8.73% compared to Funding Circle's net margin of -19.85%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 17.19% beat Funding Circle's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Vanquis Banking Group8.73% 17.19% 4.14%
Funding Circle -19.85%-13.75%-3.89%

84.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Funding Circle shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.2% of Funding Circle shares are owned 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.

Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Funding Circle has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Vanquis Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Funding Circle. Funding Circle is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vanquis Banking Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Vanquis Banking Group£446.50M0.00£103.50M£0.41N/A
Funding Circle£27.57M14.12-£5.47M-£1.84-70.63

In the previous week, Vanquis Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Funding Circle'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Vanquis Banking Group Neutral
Funding Circle Neutral

Summary

Vanquis Banking Group beats Funding Circle on 9 of the 10 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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FCH vs. The Competition

MetricFunding CircleCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£389.24M£387.68M£6.33B£3.03B
Dividend YieldN/A15.49%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio-70.6331.0614.03176.74
Price / Sales14.1295.091,858.76264,367.15
Price / Cash0.6814.43127.5327.97
Price / Book10.153.382.244.54
Net Income-£5.47M£53.80M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-6.73%-1.05%-0.46%-0.92%
1 Month Performance4.66%0.44%1.90%6.15%
1 Year Performance25.80%29.15%19.37%71.63%

Funding Circle Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCH
Funding Circle
N/AGBX 130.20
-3.7%
N/A+18.4%£389.24M£27.57M-70.631,101
PFG
Vanquis Banking Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£571.19M£446.50M548.7819,300
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 215
+20.0%
N/A+40.9%£467.25M£695.42M10.416,230Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
HAT
H&T Group
N/AGBX 648
+0.3%
GBX 545
-15.9%
+62.8%£282.37M£240.86M12.821,625
EQLS
Equals Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£265.55M£112.32M32.12397
VANQ
Vanquis Banking Group
N/AGBX 98.11
+4.5%
GBX 83
-15.4%
+71.5%£248.79M£454.39M-7.961,478
SUS
S&U
N/AGBX 1,741.74
+0.1%
GBX 1,700
-2.4%
-6.9%£206.43M£65.05M10.97224
FFX
Fairfx Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£204.20M£26.09M77.8139,000
ASAI
ASA International Group
N/AGBX 129
flat
N/A+44.8%£164.05M£6.56B0.3413,433Gap Down
TRU
TruFin
N/AGBX 96.80
+0.8%
N/A+93.9%£102.57M£34.97M40.2412,200High Trading Volume
PARK
Park Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£94.57M£110.39M10.57N/A

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