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Velocity Composites (VEL) Competitors

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GBX 27.30 -1.20 (-4.21%)
As of 02/21/2025 10:24 AM Eastern

VEL vs. SBSI, IES, PFC, CFX, OFG, FCAP, OBT, TRIN, SOS, and HARL

Should you be buying Velocity Composites stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Velocity Composites include Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), Petrofac (PFC), Colefax Group (CFX), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Cavendish Financial (FCAP), Obtala (OBT), Trinity Exploration & Production (TRIN), Sosandar (SOS), and Harland & Wolff Group (HARL). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

Velocity Composites vs.

Velocity Composites (LON:VEL) and Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (LON:SBSI) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Velocity Composites. Velocity Composites is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Velocity Composites£20.40M0.72-£2.41M-£4.46-6.12
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust£2.21M26.80£1.04M£1.2657.25

Velocity Composites received 92 more outperform votes than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Velocity CompositesOutperform Votes
92
67.65%
Underperform Votes
44
32.35%
Schroder BSC Social Impact TrustN/AN/A

40.9% of Velocity Composites shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.1% of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 40.1% of Velocity Composites shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Velocity Composites has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has a beta of -0.13, suggesting that its stock price is 113% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust has a net margin of 46.81% compared to Velocity Composites' net margin of -11.83%. Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's return on equity of 1.21% beat Velocity Composites' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Velocity Composites-11.83% -40.18% -12.42%
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust 46.81%1.21%1.08%

Velocity Composites currently has a consensus price target of GBX 60, suggesting a potential upside of 119.78%. Given Velocity Composites' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Velocity Composites is more favorable than Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Velocity Composites
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Velocity Composites. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust and 0 mentions for Velocity Composites. Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Velocity Composites' score of 0.00 indicating that Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Velocity Composites Neutral
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust Very Positive

Summary

Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust beats Velocity Composites on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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VEL vs. The Competition

MetricVelocity CompositesAerospace & Defense IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£14.75M£9.00B£5.02B£2.61B
Dividend YieldN/A2.61%3.95%5.04%
P/E Ratio-6.1247.3422.86162.81
Price / Sales0.7271.66183.04309,391.95
Price / Cash4.9121.4030.0027.80
Price / Book2.493.413.785.11
Net Income-£2.41M£235.10M£1.08B£5.68B
7 Day Performance-6.22%2.13%-0.07%-1.06%
1 Month Performance-9.38%5.93%2.53%-0.75%
1 Year Performance-18.51%56.27%25.48%38.58%

Velocity Composites Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VEL
Velocity Composites
1.7934 of 5 stars
GBX 27.30
-4.2%
GBX 60
+119.8%
-18.5%£14.75M£20.40M-6.12102
SBSI
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust
N/AGBX 72.36
-0.2%
N/A-19.3%£59.60M£2.21M57.53810News Coverage
Positive News
IES
Invinity Energy Systems
2.9612 of 5 stars
GBX 13.04
+8.7%
GBX 40
+206.7%
-49.8%£57.03M£15.88M-1.50140Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
PFC
Petrofac
N/AGBX 7.35
+1.8%
N/A-74.5%£49.71M£3.30B-0.098,600Gap Up
CFX
Colefax Group
N/AGBX 821.11
+0.4%
N/A+15.9%£48.10M£101.60M8.7555,900
OFG
Octopus Future Generations VCT
N/AGBX 82.50
flat
N/AN/A£33.93MN/A0.002,250High Trading Volume
FCAP
Cavendish Financial
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.61M£32.15M-263.33220Gap Down
OBT
Obtala
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.50M£14.89M-1.86210Gap Down
TRIN
Trinity Exploration & Production
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.38M£69.83M-523.0840
SOS
Sosandar
N/AGBX 6
-7.7%
N/A-57.5%£14.89M£46.28M-35.21170News Coverage
Gap Down
HARL
Harland & Wolff Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£14.49M£86.91M-34.9081

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This page (LON:VEL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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