VTA vs. CGT, RICA, JEO, APEO, SLPE, SAIN, NBPE, TMPL, MUT, and AGT.LN
Should you be buying Volta Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Volta Finance include Capital Gearing (CGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), Temple Bar (TMPL), Murray Income Trust (MUT), and AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Volta Finance vs.
Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) and Volta Finance (LON:VTA) 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 earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Capital Gearing received 65 more outperform votes than Volta Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.56% of users gave Capital Gearing an outperform vote while only 67.47% of users gave Volta Finance an outperform vote.
Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Volta Finance pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Capital Gearing pays out 24.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Volta Finance pays out 48.8% 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.
In the previous week, Capital Gearing had 1 more articles in the media than Volta Finance. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Capital Gearing and 0 mentions for Volta Finance. Volta Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Capital Gearing's score of -0.34 indicating that Volta Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.2% of Capital Gearing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of Volta Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Capital Gearing shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Volta Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Volta Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Gearing. Volta Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Gearing, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Gearing has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its stock price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Volta Finance has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Gearing has a net margin of 255.48% compared to Volta Finance's net margin of 71.86%. Volta Finance's return on equity of 17.54% beat Capital Gearing's return on equity.
Summary
Capital Gearing beats Volta Finance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:VTA) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
