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The broker said: Its forward PE now stands at a 15% discount to the wider FTSE 350 peer sector on 85.
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There have been some impressive growth figures posted in the peer-to-peer (P2P) sector in the last couple of years by market leaders Funding Circle, RateSetter and Zopa, but is the latter's collaboration with Metro Bank a sign of things to come?
Quakle – prounced quake-el rather than quack-el – is probably the UK peer-to-peer lending sector's best-known failure, though to be fair to the industry it was a pretty small player and collapsed more than two years ago.
And China's peer-to-peer lending sector has spent years battling its way out of the shadow of massive fraud that has tainted the industry.
Octopus Investments – the UK fund management platform which manages over £5.5bn in assets for over 50,000 clients – entered into the peer-to-peer lending sector in April.
Sector peer Serco was also up 14p to 544p.
Numis also weighed in on sector peer Michael Page, which is due to post its third quarter trading statement on Thursday.
The advanced materials company, which provides carbon technology services to the aerospace industry as well as ceramics and body armour, was hit earlier in the week after a sector peer Cookson issued its own warning of a slowdown.
From an academic perspective, omission of research safety checks along the way in the interests of time (for example, not achieving theme saturation, omitting stakeholder feedback loops, not seeking input from peer review or sector commentators) creates the danger of substituting short term gains for longer term risk.
And, finally, what about the peers within the sector?
The news hit sector peers Amec, 55p lower at £10.49, and Petrofac, down 47p at £11.42.
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