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Income & Growth VCT (IGV) Competitors

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GBX 61 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 10/10/2025

IGV vs. AGT.LN, IEM, JESC, BGSC, USA, JUP, CORD, GSCT, SOI, and SLS

Should you be buying Income & Growth VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Income & Growth VCT include AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Income & Growth VCT vs. Its Competitors

AVI Global Trust (LON:AGT.LN) and Income & Growth VCT (LON:IGV) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share. Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. AVI Global Trust pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Income & Growth VCT pays out 1,052.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Income & Growth VCT has a net margin of 71.12% compared to AVI Global Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Income & Growth VCT's return on equity of 5.16% beat AVI Global Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AVI Global TrustN/A N/A N/A
Income & Growth VCT 71.12%5.16%4.76%

8.7% of Income & Growth VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Income & Growth VCT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Income & Growth VCT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than AVI Global Trust. AVI Global Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Income & Growth VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AVI Global Trust£51.62M0.00N/A£35.20N/A
Income & Growth VCT£1.66M119.04£12.71M£0.0110,701.75

In the previous week, Income & Growth VCT had 1 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Income & Growth VCT and 0 mentions for AVI Global Trust. Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat AVI Global Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Income & Growth VCT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
AVI Global Trust Neutral
Income & Growth VCT Positive

Summary

Income & Growth VCT beats AVI Global Trust on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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IGV vs. The Competition

MetricIncome & Growth VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£197.76M£1.44B£4.88B£2.59B
Dividend Yield8.87%4.60%4.32%5.31%
P/E Ratio10,701.753,092.621,335.654,392.48
Price / Sales119.041,975.671,370.29101,224.70
Price / Cash2.5460.4648.9427.90
Price / Book0.831.382.178.00
Net Income£12.71M£264.59M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day PerformanceN/A-0.56%-0.23%0.12%
1 Month Performance-2.40%0.08%2.14%1.96%
1 Year Performance-9.63%8.23%40.17%142.08%

Income & Growth VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IGV
Income & Growth VCT
N/AGBX 61
flat
N/AN/A£197.76M£1.66M10,701.75N/APositive News
AGT.LN
AVI Global Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£812.93M£51.62M20.82N/AHigh Trading Volume
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 404
+0.7%
N/A+2.3%£809.53M-£43.08M-1,950.75N/A
JESC
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£795.72M£114.05M7.60N/A
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A
USA
Baillie Gifford US Growth
N/AGBX 271.50
+0.2%
N/A+25.3%£758.91M£136.67M578.03N/APositive News
JUP
Jupiter Fund Management
1.4221 of 5 stars
GBX 148.40
+0.3%
GBX 105
-29.2%
+74.4%£756.44M£380.90M1,374.07522
CORD
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
N/AGBX 97.80
+0.4%
N/AN/A£748.87M£109.05M711.79N/A
GSCT
The Global Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 169.60
-0.1%
N/A+1.3%£745.91M-£39.47M-1,871.96N/A
SOI
Schroder Oriental Income
N/AGBX 320
+0.5%
GBX 300
-6.3%
+19.2%£733.30M£82.53M980.69180
SLS
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£715.41M£222.48M3.3710

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This page (LON:IGV) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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