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Income & Growth VCT (IGV) Competitors

GBX 64 +1.50 (+2.40%)
As of 07/15/2025

IGV vs. AGT.LN, JESC, SDP, GSCT, CGI, VOF, BGSC, APAX, BGFD, and CORD

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), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Canadian General Investments (CGI), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD), and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD). 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 contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.

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£17.88M11.72£12.71M£3.8816.48

In the previous week, Income & Growth VCT had 2 more articles in the media than AVI Global Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Income & Growth VCT and 0 mentions for AVI Global Trust. Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.95 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

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%

AVI Global Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share. Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.6%. AVI Global Trust pays out 0.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Income & Growth VCT pays out 257.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Income & Growth VCT beats AVI Global Trust on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding IGV and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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IGV vs. The Competition

MetricIncome & Growth VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£209.52M£1.28B£6.34B£3.01B
Dividend Yield9.68%4.38%4.19%5.02%
P/E Ratio16.4822.2414.00166.90
Price / Sales11.722,367.451,740.02318,946.57
Price / Cash2.5460.71128.4827.97
Price / Book0.871.231.954.61
Net Income£12.71M£263.65M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance2.40%0.05%0.18%2.47%
1 Month Performance0.79%3.06%3.81%8.85%
1 Year Performance-5.88%5.70%18.21%64.49%

Income & Growth VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IGV
Income & Growth VCT
N/AGBX 64
+2.4%
N/AN/A£209.52M£17.88M16.48N/A
AGT.LN
AVI Global Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£812.93M£51.62M20.82N/AHigh Trading Volume
JESC
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£795.72M£114.05M7.60N/A
SDP
Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund
N/AGBX 562
-0.4%
N/A+6.7%£793.92M£134.70M6.56N/APositive News
GSCT
The Global Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 164
+0.7%
N/A-1.3%£788.40M£70.77M1.32N/A
CGI
Canadian General Investments
N/AGBX 2,143
-0.6%
N/A-0.9%£777.69M£350.08M4.77N/AHigh Trading Volume
VOF
VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund
N/AGBX 437
+0.8%
N/A-9.2%£774.89M£115.59M11.65125
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A
APAX
Apax Global Alpha
N/AGBX 128.20
+1.4%
N/A-15.8%£748.51M£9.05M217.50N/ANews Coverage
BGFD
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust
N/AGBX 804
+0.6%
N/A+5.8%£733.84M£69.20M11.15N/APositive News
CORD
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
N/AGBX 95
flat
N/A+22.4%£732.21M£103.12M0.87N/A

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This page (LON:IGV) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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