The Sell recommendation for Lending Club Corp is the conclusion of a proprietary process of evaluation which yielded results that were above average in 1 area: an industry group ranked above average in attractiveness; and produced below average outcomes in 5 areas: an economic sector ranked below average in attractiveness, a ranking in the company's sector that is in the bottom eighth, ranking in the company's industry group that is in the bottom eighth, an analytical score that is below average, and a quantitative risk/reward calculation that is unattractive.

With a $1.5 billion market value, Lending Club Corp (NYSE:LC) ranks in the lower half of its industry group, Consumer Finance, and in the upper half of its sector group, Financials, in market value. From the viewpoint of investment attractiveness, the current Portfolio Grader ranking for LC puts it 21 among the 25 companies in this industry group, a spot that is well below-average; in the third quartile of the sector with a ranking of 565 among the 760 companies in the sector, and number 3,542 in the nearly 5,000 company Portfolio Grader universe.