PVN vs. JZCP, BERI, MERC, BASC, MMIT, JARA, BRSA, ASIT, FTF, and PGOO
Should you be buying ProVen VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProVen VCT include JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust (BERI), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA), Aberforth Split Level Income (ASIT), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), and ProVen Growth and Income VCT (PGOO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JZ Capital Partners (LON:JZCP) and ProVen VCT (LON:PVN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
56.8% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.4% of JZ Capital Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of ProVen VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ProVen VCT received 16 more outperform votes than JZ Capital Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.04% of users gave ProVen VCT an outperform vote while only 62.75% of users gave JZ Capital Partners an outperform vote.
JZ Capital Partners has a beta of 0.25, indicating that its share price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProVen VCT has a beta of 0.01, indicating that its share price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500.
JZ Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 25 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. ProVen VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. JZ Capital Partners pays out -7,812.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ProVen VCT pays out -6,666.7% 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. JZ Capital Partners is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
ProVen VCT has higher revenue and earnings than JZ Capital Partners. ProVen VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JZ Capital Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ProVen VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled JZ Capital Partners'average media sentiment score.
JZ Capital Partners has a net margin of 0.00% compared to JZ Capital Partners' net margin of -282.67%. JZ Capital Partners' return on equity of -1.76% beat ProVen VCT's return on equity.
Summary
ProVen VCT beats JZ Capital Partners on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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