VSL vs. DORE, DUKE, BGCG, MAJE, KPC, BSC, OOA, MGCI, AMAT, and IPU
Should you be buying VPC Specialty Lending Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments include Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), Duke Capital (DUKE), Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG), Majedie Investments (MAJE), Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (KPC), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), Octopus AIM VCT (OOA), M&G Credit Income Investment (MGCI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) and Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (LON:DORE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
In the previous week, VPC Specialty Lending Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Downing Renewables & Infrastructure'saverage media sentiment score.
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure's return on equity of 0.00% beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity.
33.6% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.4% of Downing Renewables & Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.4% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.8% of Downing Renewables & Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments received 111 more outperform votes than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.0%. Downing Renewables & Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -8,888.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Downing Renewables & Infrastructure pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure beats VPC Specialty Lending Investments on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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