PGOO vs. MMIT, MERC, IGC, ASIT, AEI, JARA, PVN, CVCG, BASC, and BRSA
Should you be buying ProVen Growth & Income VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProVen Growth & Income VCT include Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), India Capital Growth (IGC), Aberforth Split Level Income (ASIT), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), ProVen VCT (PVN), CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), and BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT (LON:PGOO) and Mobius Investment Trust (LON:MMIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT received 61 more outperform votes than Mobius Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.83% of users gave Mobius Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave ProVen Growth & Income VCT an outperform vote.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Mobius Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays out -3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mobius Investment Trust pays out -1,666.7% 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. ProVen Growth & Income VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a beta of -0.05, meaning that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobius Investment Trust has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
24.1% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of ProVen Growth & Income VCT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.9% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Mobius Investment Trust has a net margin of 57.76% compared to ProVen Growth & Income VCT's net margin of 0.00%. Mobius Investment Trust's return on equity of 3.61% beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's return on equity.
Mobius Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. Mobius Investment Trust 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.
In the previous week, ProVen Growth & Income VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Mobius Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Mobius Investment Trust beats ProVen Growth & Income VCT on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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