MVCT vs. JUP, DIG, HEFT, ORIT, NAIT, NESF, POLR, JEMI, BHIU, and RTW
Should you be buying Molten Ventures VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molten Ventures VCT include Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), North American Income Trust (NAIT), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), Polar Capital (POLR), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU), and RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Molten Ventures VCT vs.
Jupiter Fund Management (LON:JUP) and Molten Ventures VCT (LON:MVCT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Jupiter Fund Management received 609 more outperform votes than Molten Ventures VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Molten Ventures VCT an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Jupiter Fund Management an outperform vote.
Jupiter Fund Management currently has a consensus price target of GBX 90.33, suggesting a potential upside of 8.31%. Given Jupiter Fund Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Jupiter Fund Management is more favorable than Molten Ventures VCT.
46.7% of Jupiter Fund Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are held by institutional investors. 25.2% of Jupiter Fund Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Jupiter Fund Management has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molten Ventures VCT has a beta of 0.1, suggesting that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Jupiter Fund Management had 3 more articles in the media than Molten Ventures VCT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Jupiter Fund Management and 0 mentions for Molten Ventures VCT. Jupiter Fund Management's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Molten Ventures VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Jupiter Fund Management is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Molten Ventures VCT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Jupiter Fund Management. Jupiter Fund Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Molten Ventures VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Jupiter Fund Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Molten Ventures VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Jupiter Fund Management pays out -404.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Molten Ventures VCT pays out -62.4% 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. Jupiter Fund Management is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Molten Ventures VCT has a net margin of 336.71% compared to Jupiter Fund Management's net margin of -2.34%. Jupiter Fund Management's return on equity of -1.13% beat Molten Ventures VCT's return on equity.
Summary
Jupiter Fund Management beats Molten Ventures VCT on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:MVCT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
