PGOO vs. HSL, EWI, SCAM, BUT, SCIN, MERI, BRSC, GROW, JETG, and BRGE
Should you be buying ProVen Growth & Income VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProVen Growth & Income VCT include Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), Scottish American Investment (SCAM), Brunner (BUT), The Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN), Chrysalis Investments (MERI), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), Molten Ventures (GROW), JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JETG), and BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT vs.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT (LON:PGOO) and Henderson Smaller Companies (LON:HSL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a beta of -0.03, meaning that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Henderson Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Henderson Smaller Companies received 3 more outperform votes than ProVen Growth & Income VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.64% of users gave Henderson Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 65.00% of users gave ProVen Growth & Income VCT an outperform vote.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Henderson Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 27 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays out 109.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henderson Smaller Companies pays out 21.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Henderson Smaller Companies has a net margin of 93.00% compared to ProVen Growth & Income VCT's net margin of 67.21%. Henderson Smaller Companies' return on equity of 13.76% beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's return on equity.
31.1% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of ProVen Growth & Income VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Henderson Smaller Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Henderson Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Henderson Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for ProVen Growth & Income VCT. Henderson Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Henderson Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Henderson Smaller Companies has higher revenue and earnings than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. Henderson Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ProVen Growth & Income VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Henderson Smaller Companies beats ProVen Growth & Income VCT on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PGOO) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff