IPF vs. SPI, RTN, ESP, APH, SGM, BERI, MSI, MCP, 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), The Restaurant Group (RTN), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Alliance Pharma (APH), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.
International Personal Finance vs.
International Personal Finance (LON:IPF) and Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
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 10.39% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.
91.6% of International Personal Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held by institutional investors. 8.9% of International Personal Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are held 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.
Spire Healthcare Group has a consensus target price of GBX 322, suggesting a potential upside of 37.61%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than International Personal Finance.
International Personal Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 11 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. International Personal Finance pays out 5,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 4,285.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
International Personal Finance received 25 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 60.89% of users gave Spire Healthcare Group an outperform vote.
International Personal Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group had 2 more articles in the media than International Personal Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Spire Healthcare Group and 0 mentions for International Personal Finance. Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat International Personal Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
International Personal Finance has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
International Personal Finance beats Spire Healthcare Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:IPF) was last updated on 1/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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