VCAP vs. 47IE, ORCH, TIME, DFCH, DSM, LMS, IX, LFI, TEK, and QBT
Should you be buying Vector Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Vector Capital include S&U (47IE), Orchard Funding Group (ORCH), Time Finance (TIME), Distribution Finance Capital (DFCH), Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust (DSM), LMS Capital (LMS), i(x) Net Zero (IX), London Finance & Investment Group (LFI), Tekcapital (TEK), and Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Vector Capital (LON:VCAP) and S&U (LON:47IE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
S&U received 116 more outperform votes than Vector Capital when rated by MarketBeat users.
Vector Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. S&U pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share. Vector Capital pays out 10,000.0% 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 pays out 1.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
S&U has higher revenue and earnings than Vector Capital. S&U is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vector Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
S&U has a net margin of 33.39% compared to Vector Capital's net margin of 27.66%. S&U's return on equity of 11.08% beat Vector Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Vector Capital had 1 more articles in the media than S&U. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Vector Capital and 0 mentions for S&U. Vector Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat S&U's score of 0.00 indicating that Vector Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
14.5% of Vector Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.1% of S&U shares are owned by institutional investors. 80.0% of Vector Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Vector Capital has a beta of -0.1, meaning that its stock price is 110% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, S&U has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
S&U beats Vector Capital on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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