VSL vs. IPX, JUGI, GHE, BHGG, CGI, ORIT, PAC, IPO, POLN, and ATR
Should you be buying VPC Specialty Lending Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments include Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), Gresham House (GHE), BH Global (BHGG), Canadian General Investments (CGI), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), Pacific Assets (PAC), IP Group (IPO), Pollen Street Group (POLN), and Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Impax Asset Management Group (LON:IPX) and VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
71.4% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.6% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.4% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.4% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Impax Asset Management Group has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Impax Asset Management Group received 93 more outperform votes than VPC Specialty Lending Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.76% of users gave Impax Asset Management Group an outperform vote while only 61.33% of users gave VPC Specialty Lending Investments an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Impax Asset Management Group had 3 more articles in the media than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Impax Asset Management Group and 1 mentions for VPC Specialty Lending Investments. Impax Asset Management Group's average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that Impax Asset Management Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Impax Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.0%. Impax Asset Management Group pays out 9,032.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -8,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Impax Asset Management Group has a net margin of 23.03% compared to VPC Specialty Lending Investments' net margin of 0.00%. Impax Asset Management Group's return on equity of 34.24% beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity.
Impax Asset Management Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 620, indicating a potential upside of 68.25%. Given Impax Asset Management Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Impax Asset Management Group is more favorable than VPC Specialty Lending Investments.
Impax Asset Management Group has higher revenue and earnings than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Impax Asset Management Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Impax Asset Management Group beats VPC Specialty Lending Investments on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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