LEND vs. 47IE, ORCH, VCAP, PCF, ZAIM, AMGO, MCL, NSF, PKG, and PFG
Should you be buying Sancus Lending Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sancus Lending Group include S&U (47IE), Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Vector Capital (VCAP), PCF Group (PCF), Adalan Ventures (ZAIM), Amigo (AMGO), Morses Club (MCL), Non-Standard Finance (NSF), Park Group (PKG), and Vanquis Banking Group (PFG). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Sancus Lending Group vs.
S&U (LON:47IE) and Sancus Lending Group (LON:LEND) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Sancus Lending Group. Sancus Lending Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than S&U, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&U has a beta of 0.55, indicating that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sancus Lending Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Sancus Lending Group had 1 more articles in the media than S&U. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Sancus Lending Group and 0 mentions for S&U. Sancus Lending Group's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat S&U's score of 0.00 indicating that Sancus Lending Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
S&U has a net margin of 28.21% compared to Sancus Lending Group's net margin of -57.08%. S&U's return on equity of 8.13% beat Sancus Lending Group's return on equity.
S&U received 116 more outperform votes than Sancus Lending Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.96% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 0.00% of users gave Sancus Lending Group an outperform vote.
1.1% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.1% of Sancus Lending Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.6% of Sancus Lending Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Sancus Lending Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 600.0%. S&U pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Sancus Lending Group pays out -30,000.0% 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. Sancus Lending Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
S&U beats Sancus Lending Group on 9 of the 17 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:LEND) was last updated on 4/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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