LEND vs. 47IE, VCAP, PCF, ZAIM, AMGO, MCL, NSF, PKG, PFG, and IPF
Should you be buying Sancus Lending Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sancus Lending Group include S&U (47IE), Vector Capital (VCAP), PCF Group (PCF), Adalan Ventures (ZAIM), Amigo (AMGO), Morses Club (MCL), Non-Standard Finance (NSF), Park Group (PKG), Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), and International Personal Finance (IPF). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
Sancus Lending Group vs. Its Competitors
S&U (LON:47IE) and Sancus Lending Group (LON:LEND) 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, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
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 709.2%. 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.
In the previous week, S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Sancus Lending Group'saverage media sentiment score.
1.1% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.1% of Sancus Lending Group shares are held by institutional investors. 52.6% of Sancus Lending Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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 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, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sancus Lending Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
S&U beats Sancus Lending Group on 7 of the 13 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 8/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
