MERC vs. PGOO, ASIT, AEI, MMIT, SSIT, JARA, CVCG, PVN, BASC, and IGC
Should you be buying Mercia Asset Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mercia Asset Management include ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG), ProVen VCT (PVN), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), and India Capital Growth (IGC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Mercia Asset Management (LON:MERC) and ProVen Growth & Income VCT (LON:PGOO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
Mercia Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Mercia Asset Management pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays out -3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Mercia Asset Management presently has a consensus price target of GBX 64, suggesting a potential upside of 89.44%. Given Mercia Asset Management's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than ProVen Growth & Income VCT.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT received 10 more outperform votes than Mercia Asset Management when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.69% of users gave Mercia Asset Management an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave ProVen Growth & Income VCT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Mercia Asset Management had 1 more articles in the media than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mercia Asset Management and 0 mentions for ProVen Growth & Income VCT. Mercia Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Mercia Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Mercia Asset Management's net margin of -9.81%. Mercia Asset Management's return on equity of -1.38% beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's return on equity.
Mercia Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. Mercia Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ProVen Growth & Income VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
61.1% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.4% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ProVen Growth & Income VCT shares are owned by company 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.
Mercia Asset Management has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management beats ProVen Growth & Income VCT on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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