TRU vs. ASAI, DFCH, TIME, VANQ, LIT, HAT, SUS, IPF, EQLS, and FCH
Should you be buying TruFin stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TruFin include ASA International Group (ASAI), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Time Finance (TIME), Vanquis Banking Group (VANQ), Litigation Capital Management (LIT), H&T Group (HAT), S&U (SUS), International Personal Finance (IPF), Equals Group (EQLS), and Funding Circle (FCH). These companies are all part of the "credit services" industry.
ASA International Group (LON:ASAI) and TruFin (LON:TRU) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
ASA International Group has higher revenue and earnings than TruFin. TruFin is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ASA International Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ASA International Group has a net margin of 6.35% compared to ASA International Group's net margin of -35.70%. TruFin's return on equity of 10.53% beat ASA International Group's return on equity.
ASA International Group has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TruFin has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, TruFin's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ASA International Group'saverage media sentiment score.
TruFin received 25 more outperform votes than ASA International Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.91% of users gave TruFin an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave ASA International Group an outperform vote.
18.6% of ASA International Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.9% of TruFin shares are owned by institutional investors. 21.2% of ASA International Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of TruFin shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
ASA International Group beats TruFin on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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