VSL vs. LTI, IVI, TIGT, MMIT, IGC, JUS, AUGM, ASIT, TV1, and PVN
Should you be buying VPC Specialty Lending Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments include Lindsell Train Investment Trust (LTI), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), India Capital Growth (IGC), Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), and ProVen VCT (PVN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments vs. Its Competitors
VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) and Lindsell Train Investment Trust (LON:LTI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a net margin of 126.83% compared to Lindsell Train Investment Trust's net margin of 82.49%. Lindsell Train Investment Trust's return on equity of 3.89% beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lindsell Train Investment Trust has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 53.2%. Lindsell Train Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5,150 per share and has a dividend yield of 592.0%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -71.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lindsell Train Investment Trust pays out 13,365.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Lindsell Train Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lindsell Train Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
33.6% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of Lindsell Train Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 25.4% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 48.5% of Lindsell Train Investment Trust shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Lindsell Train Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Lindsell Train Investment Trust and 0 mentions for VPC Specialty Lending Investments. Lindsell Train Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that Lindsell Train Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Lindsell Train Investment Trust beats VPC Specialty Lending Investments on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:VSL) was last updated on 7/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
