HAT vs. LIT, SUS, IPF, FCH, EQLS, VANQ, TRU, ASAI, BPM, and BVT
Should you be buying H&T Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of H&T Group include Litigation Capital Management (LIT), S&U (SUS), International Personal Finance (IPF), Funding Circle (FCH), Equals Group (EQLS), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), TruFin (TRU), ASA International Group (ASAI), B.P. Marsh & Partners (BPM), and Baronsmead Venture Trust (BVT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
H&T Group (LON:HAT) and Litigation Capital Management (LON:LIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, H&T Group had 13 more articles in the media than Litigation Capital Management. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for H&T Group and 2 mentions for Litigation Capital Management. H&T Group's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Litigation Capital Management's score of -0.58 indicating that H&T Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Litigation Capital Management has lower revenue, but higher earnings than H&T Group. Litigation Capital Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than H&T Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
H&T Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Litigation Capital Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. H&T Group pays out 3,541.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Litigation Capital Management pays out 1,052.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
H&T Group has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Litigation Capital Management has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
H&T Group received 128 more outperform votes than Litigation Capital Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 82.14% of users gave Litigation Capital Management an outperform vote while only 56.13% of users gave H&T Group an outperform vote.
Litigation Capital Management has a net margin of 18.77% compared to H&T Group's net margin of 9.55%. Litigation Capital Management's return on equity of 30.30% beat H&T Group's return on equity.
55.8% of H&T Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.8% of Litigation Capital Management shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of H&T Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.1% of Litigation Capital Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
H&T Group beats Litigation Capital Management on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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