Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT) Competitors

Molten Ventures VCT (LON:MVCT) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, community ranking, profitability and institutional ownership.

Is MVCT or PAC a better dividend stock?

Molten Ventures VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Molten Ventures VCT pays out -62.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pacific Assets pays out 11.3% 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. Molten Ventures VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in MVCT or PAC?

0.9% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.6% of Pacific Assets shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Pacific Assets shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, MVCT or PAC?

Pacific Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Molten Ventures VCT. Molten Ventures VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Molten Ventures VCT	-£2.43M	-43.08	-£8.19M	-£3.21	-12.32
Pacific Assets	£60.20M	6.86	£42.65M	£35.41	9.69

Does the media favor MVCT or PAC?

In the previous week, Pacific Assets had 1 more articles in the media than Molten Ventures VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Pacific Assets and 0 mentions for Molten Ventures VCT. Pacific Assets' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Molten Ventures VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Pacific Assets is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Molten Ventures VCT	Neutral
Pacific Assets	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, MVCT or PAC?

Molten Ventures VCT has a beta of 0.1, meaning that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MVCT or PAC?

Pacific Assets received 111 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 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Molten Ventures VCT	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Pacific Assets	Outperform Votes 112 70.00%	Underperform Votes 48 30.00%

Is MVCT or PAC more profitable?

Molten Ventures VCT has a net margin of 336.71% compared to Pacific Assets' net margin of 70.84%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 8.79% beat Molten Ventures VCT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Molten Ventures VCT	336.71%	-6.80%	-1.38%
Pacific Assets	70.84%	8.79%	0.07%

Summary

Pacific Assets beats Molten Ventures VCT on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.