FCH vs. PFG, IPF, EQLS, FFX, SUS, HAT, VANQ, LIT, PARK, and TRU
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), Equals Group (EQLS), Fairfx Group (FFX), S&U (SUS), H&T Group (HAT), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), Park Group (PARK), and TruFin (TRU). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Funding Circle vs.
Funding Circle (LON:FCH) and Vanquis Banking Group (LON:PFG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, Funding Circle had 1 more articles in the media than Vanquis Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Funding Circle and 0 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group. Funding Circle's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Vanquis Banking Group'saverage media sentiment score.
Vanquis Banking Group received 465 more outperform votes than Funding Circle when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.86% of users gave Funding Circle an outperform vote while only 60.52% of users gave Vanquis Banking Group an outperform vote.
Vanquis Banking Group has a net margin of 8.73% compared to Funding Circle's net margin of -17.43%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 17.19% beat Funding Circle's return on equity.
Funding Circle has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Vanquis Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Funding Circle. Vanquis Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Funding Circle, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
68.0% of Funding Circle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 35.2% of Funding Circle shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Vanquis Banking Group beats Funding Circle on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:FCH) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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