VSL vs. HHV, CVCG, IPU, SSIT, AEI, ASIT, DORE, MERC, IGC, and PGOO
Should you be buying VPC Specialty Lending Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments include Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (HHV), CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Aberforth Split Level Income (ASIT), Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), India Capital Growth (IGC), and ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) and Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (LON:HHV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hargreave Hale AIM VCT has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, VPC Specialty Lending Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Hargreave Hale AIM VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for VPC Specialty Lending Investments and 0 mentions for Hargreave Hale AIM VCT. VPC Specialty Lending Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Hargreave Hale AIM VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that VPC Specialty Lending Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
37.5% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.5% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Hargreave Hale AIM VCT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.3%. Hargreave Hale AIM VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -16,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hargreave Hale AIM VCT pays out -3,333.3% 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. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity of -5.31% beat Hargreave Hale AIM VCT's return on equity.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments received 29 more outperform votes than Hargreave Hale AIM VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave Hargreave Hale AIM VCT an outperform vote while only 61.33% of users gave VPC Specialty Lending Investments an outperform vote.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Hargreave Hale AIM VCT. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
VPC Specialty Lending Investments beats Hargreave Hale AIM VCT on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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