SVCT vs. VSL, VLE, JGC, TENT, BFSP, LGT, RIV, SGEM, BRIG, and NBMI
Should you be buying Seneca Growth Capital VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seneca Growth Capital VCT include VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL), Volvere (VLE), Jupiter Green (JGC), Triple Point Energy Transition (TENT), Blackfinch Spring VCT (BFSP), Lighthouse Group (LGT), River and Mercantile Group (RIV), ScotGems (SGEM), BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG), and NB Global Monthly Income Fund Ltd GBP (NBMI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Seneca Growth Capital VCT vs. Its Competitors
VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) and Seneca Growth Capital VCT (LON:SVCT) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 47.3%. Seneca Growth Capital VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -71.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Seneca Growth Capital VCT pays out -35.4% 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. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
33.6% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 25.4% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Seneca Growth Capital VCT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, VPC Specialty Lending Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Seneca Growth Capital VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a net margin of 126.83% compared to Seneca Growth Capital VCT's net margin of 112.22%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity of -15.02% beat Seneca Growth Capital VCT's return on equity.
Seneca Growth Capital VCT has higher revenue and earnings than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. Seneca Growth Capital VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than VPC Specialty Lending Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seneca Growth Capital VCT has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
VPC Specialty Lending Investments beats Seneca Growth Capital 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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This page (LON:SVCT) was last updated on 8/28/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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