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International Personal Finance (IPF) Competitors

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GBX 139.20 -0.20 (-0.14%)
As of 12:28 PM Eastern

IPF vs. SPI, ESP, RTN, APH, SGM, MSI, MCP, BERI, AMAT, and STM

Should you be buying International Personal Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of International Personal Finance include Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), Empiric Student Property (ESP), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Alliance Pharma (APH), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.

International Personal Finance vs.

Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) and International Personal Finance (LON:IPF) are both small-cap medical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.

Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, International Personal Finance has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Spire Healthcare Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 61.55%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than International Personal Finance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Spire Healthcare Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
International Personal Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

International Personal Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spire Healthcare Group. International Personal Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Spire Healthcare Group£1.44B0.52£28.15M£7.0326.43
International Personal Finance£695.42M0.44£44.87M£20.646.75

In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 1 more articles in the media than International Personal Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 1 mentions for International Personal Finance. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat International Personal Finance's score of 0.34 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Spire Healthcare Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
International Personal Finance
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

International Personal Finance received 24 more outperform votes than Spire Healthcare Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.09% of users gave International Personal Finance an outperform vote while only 60.96% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Spire Healthcare GroupOutperform Votes
356
60.96%
Underperform Votes
228
39.04%
International Personal FinanceOutperform Votes
380
66.09%
Underperform Votes
195
33.91%

Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. International Personal Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. International Personal Finance pays out 53.3% 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.

International Personal Finance has a net margin of 6.45% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of 1.96%. International Personal Finance's return on equity of 9.98% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Spire Healthcare Group1.96% 3.82% 3.73%
International Personal Finance 6.45%9.98%8.81%

50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of International Personal Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of International Personal Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

International Personal Finance beats Spire Healthcare Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IPF vs. The Competition

MetricInternational Personal FinanceCredit Services IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£302.95M£309.93M£3.79B£2.53B
Dividend Yield8.35%15.31%4.21%4.96%
P/E Ratio6.7522.1114.26134.23
Price / Sales0.4492.591,722.29239,016.85
Price / Cash3.7714.6650.2928.05
Price / Book0.693.323.384.49
Net Income£44.87M£54.69M£1.24B£5.82B
7 Day Performance4.34%1.25%8.90%8.73%
1 Month Performance-9.77%-0.24%8.87%7.34%
1 Year Performance32.13%23.00%10.43%25.23%

International Personal Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 139.20
-0.1%
N/A+29.7%£302.52M£695.42M6.746,230News Coverage
Positive News
SPI
Spire Healthcare Group
1.9912 of 5 stars
GBX 182.80
+1.0%
GBX 300
+64.1%
-25.3%£734.07M£1.44B26.02420
ESP
Empiric Student Property
N/AGBX 90.50
+0.1%
N/A0.0%£599.48M£89.58M10.16150
RTN
The Restaurant Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£499.23M£927M-1,080.0064,000
APH
Alliance Pharma
1.85 of 5 stars
GBX 64.33
+0.0%
GBX 6,250
+9,616.1%
+83.4%£348.29M£183.50M-10.3791,000
SGM
Sigma Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£181.35M£10.60M54.5948,300
MSI
MS INTERNATIONAL
N/AGBX 943.22
+1.4%
N/A+4.6%£149.70M£107.14M13.15455News Coverage
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
BERI
BlackRock Energy and Resources
N/AGBX 107
+1.9%
N/A-10.5%£126.91M£25.44M5.62N/ANews Coverage
Gap Up
AMAT
Amati AIM VCT
N/AGBX 65
-0.8%
N/A-23.5%£95.42M£-5,647,748.73-8.9333,000
STM
STM Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£35.53M£30.06M3,075.0048,300News Coverage

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This page (LON:IPF) was last updated on 4/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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