PVN vs. MMIT, JARA, BRSA, SSIT, HHV, AEI, FTF, MERC, PGOO, and UAV
Should you be buying ProVen VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProVen VCT include Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT), Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (HHV), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO), and Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Mobius Investment Trust (LON:MMIT) and ProVen VCT (LON:PVN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Mobius Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProVen VCT has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Mobius Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than ProVen VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mobius Investment Trust and 0 mentions for ProVen VCT. ProVen VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Mobius Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Mobius Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Mobius Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than ProVen VCT. ProVen VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobius Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
28.2% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.8% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of ProVen VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
ProVen VCT received 63 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 65.04% of users gave ProVen VCT an outperform vote.
Mobius Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. ProVen VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Mobius Investment Trust pays out 833.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ProVen VCT pays out -6,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ProVen VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Mobius Investment Trust has a net margin of 76.16% compared to Mobius Investment Trust's net margin of -282.67%. ProVen VCT's return on equity of 8.45% beat Mobius Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Mobius Investment Trust beats ProVen VCT on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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