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Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT) Competitors

GBX 38.50 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 08/26/2025

MVCT vs. BRFI, DIG, HEFT, FAS, BHIU, ORIT, ANII, CHIU, LWI, and JAI

Should you be buying Molten Ventures VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Molten Ventures VCT include BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Fidelity Asian Values (FAS), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), CT UK High Income Trust (CHIU), Lowland (LWI), and JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust (JAI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Molten Ventures VCT vs. Its Competitors

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

Molten Ventures VCT has a net margin of 336.71% compared to BlackRock Frontiers' net margin of 76.11%. BlackRock Frontiers' return on equity of 14.57% beat Molten Ventures VCT's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Molten Ventures VCT336.71% -6.80% -1.38%
BlackRock Frontiers 76.11%14.57%13.46%

0.9% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.1% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Molten Ventures VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. BlackRock Frontiers pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Molten Ventures VCT pays out -62.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Frontiers pays out 28.4% 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. Molten Ventures VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Molten Ventures VCT-£2.43M-41.99-£8.19M-£3.21-12.00
BlackRock Frontiers£96.46M4.20£73.42M£24.656.92

Molten Ventures VCT has a beta of 0.1, meaning that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Frontiers has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Molten Ventures VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock Frontiers'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Molten Ventures VCT Neutral
BlackRock Frontiers Neutral

Summary

BlackRock Frontiers beats Molten Ventures VCT on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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MVCT vs. The Competition

MetricMolten Ventures VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£102.18M£1.30B£6.48B£3.18B
Dividend Yield6.49%4.41%4.17%5.04%
P/E Ratio-12.0022.5314.31166.92
Price / Sales-41.992,443.181,769.31448,413.15
Price / Cash3.2960.62127.5127.93
Price / Book0.861.395.286.35
Net Income-£8.19M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.54%0.86%0.77%
1 Month PerformanceN/A1.10%2.32%49.51%
1 Year PerformanceN/A6.65%24.67%141.61%

Molten Ventures VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MVCT
Molten Ventures VCT
N/AGBX 38.50
flat
N/AN/A£102.18M-£2.43M-12.00N/A
BRFI
BlackRock Frontiers
N/AGBX 170.99
+0.4%
N/A+18.8%£405.94M£96.46M6.94N/ADividend Increase
DIG
Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
N/AGBX 300
flat
N/A+3.5%£402.59M£40.96M11.06N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
HEFT
Henderson European Focus Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£400.01M£79.72M537.14N/AHigh Trading Volume
FAS
Fidelity Asian Values
N/AGBX 572
+0.7%
N/A+18.6%£398.23M£22.46M34.93N/APositive News
BHIU
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£391.68M£3.93M16,900.00N/AGap Up
ORIT
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
N/AGBX 70.40
-0.8%
N/A-9.6%£390.93M£28.91M21.54N/APositive News
ANII
abrdn New India Investment Trust
N/AGBX 803.36
-0.1%
N/A-1.4%£389.89M£149.92M3.34N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
CHIU
CT UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£383.24M£12.28M3,677.78N/A
LWI
Lowland
N/AGBX 148.13
-0.6%
N/A+12.9%£377.82M£58.88M6.95N/A
JAI
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£377.27M£25.05M17.51N/A

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This page (LON:MVCT) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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