PGOO vs. AEI, MERC, JARA, HHV, PVN, UAV, CVCG, MMIT, BRSA, and SSIT
Should you be buying ProVen Growth & Income VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ProVen Growth & Income VCT include abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Mercia Asset Management (MERC), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (HHV), ProVen VCT (PVN), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA), and Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn Equity Income Trust (LON:AEI) and ProVen Growth & Income VCT (LON:PGOO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
abrdn Equity Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. ProVen Growth & Income VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn Equity Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
abrdn Equity Income Trust has a net margin of 49.15% compared to abrdn Equity Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT's return on equity of 1.97% beat abrdn Equity Income Trust's return on equity.
abrdn Equity Income Trust has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
33.5% of abrdn Equity Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 14.9% of abrdn Equity Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ProVen Growth & Income VCT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
abrdn Equity Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. abrdn Equity Income Trust pays out 38,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays out -3,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT received 78 more outperform votes than abrdn Equity Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, abrdn Equity Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn Equity Income Trust and 0 mentions for ProVen Growth & Income VCT. ProVen Growth & Income VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled abrdn Equity Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
abrdn Equity Income Trust beats ProVen Growth & Income VCT on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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