SUS vs. PFG, FCH, IPF, EQLS, FFX, HAT, VANQ, LIT, PARK, and TRU
Should you be buying S&U stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of S&U include Vanquis Banking Group (PFG), Funding Circle (FCH), International Personal Finance (IPF), Equals Group (EQLS), Fairfx Group (FFX), 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.
S&U vs.
S&U (LON:SUS) and Vanquis Banking Group (LON:PFG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 150 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Vanquis Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share. S&U pays out 9,677.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Vanquis Banking Group pays out 4,146.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
S&U has a net margin of 28.21% compared to Vanquis Banking Group's net margin of 8.73%. Vanquis Banking Group's return on equity of 17.19% beat S&U's return on equity.
S&U has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vanquis Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
S&U currently has a consensus price target of GBX 2,100, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given S&U's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe S&U is more favorable than Vanquis Banking Group.
Vanquis Banking Group received 239 more outperform votes than S&U when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.83% of users gave S&U an outperform vote while only 60.52% of users gave Vanquis Banking Group an outperform vote.
3.8% of S&U shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.0% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held by institutional investors. 88.9% of S&U shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Vanquis Banking Group shares are held 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.
Vanquis Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than S&U. Vanquis Banking 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.
In the previous week, S&U had 1 more articles in the media than Vanquis Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for S&U and 0 mentions for Vanquis Banking Group. S&U's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Vanquis Banking Group's score of 0.00 indicating that S&U is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
S&U beats Vanquis Banking Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SUS) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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