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Income & Growth VCT (IGV) Competitors

GBX 64.51 -0.49 (-0.75%)
As of 01/20/2025 10:03 AM Eastern

IGV vs. SLS, VOF, TRG, CORD, ESCT, JII, APAX, SOI, OTV2, and DGN

Should you be buying Income & Growth VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Income & Growth VCT include Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), The European Smaller Companies Trust (TRG), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), and Asia Dragon (DGN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Income & Growth VCT vs.

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (LON:SLS) and Income & Growth VCT (LON:IGV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust received 51 more outperform votes than Income & Growth VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.12% of users gave Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Income & Growth VCT an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies TrustOutperform Votes
80
66.12%
Underperform Votes
41
33.88%
Income & Growth VCTOutperform Votes
29
59.18%
Underperform Votes
20
40.82%

In the previous week, Income & Growth VCT had 1 more articles in the media than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Income & Growth VCT and 0 mentions for Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.67 beat Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Income & Growth VCT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust Neutral
Income & Growth VCT Very Positive

Income & Growth VCT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Income & Growth VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust£222.48M0.00N/A£217.40N/A
Income & Growth VCT£12.36M13.95£9.11M£0.041,612.75

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share. Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Income & Growth VCT pays out 25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Income & Growth VCT has a net margin of 73.70% compared to Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Income & Growth VCT's return on equity of 7.65% beat Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies TrustN/A N/A N/A
Income & Growth VCT 73.70%7.65%4.76%

Summary

Income & Growth VCT beats Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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IGV vs. The Competition

MetricIncome & Growth VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£172.44M£1.12B£3.87B£2.05B
Dividend Yield14.18%4.67%4.43%5.17%
P/E Ratio1,612.75810.68429.431,931.84
Price / Sales13.951,487.982,873.68397,059.81
Price / Cash2.5466.0853.1729.27
Price / Book0.871.181.913.09
Net Income£9.11M£61.77M£439.94M£183.87M
7 Day Performance1.59%0.99%1.48%1.55%
1 Month Performance0.02%2.24%5.28%3.95%
1 Year Performance-6.51%25.15%22.20%42.77%

Income & Growth VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IGV
Income & Growth VCT
N/AGBX 64.51
-0.8%
N/A-6.5%£172.44M£12.36M1,612.75N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
SLS
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£715.41M£222.48M3.3710
VOF
VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund
N/AGBX 467
-0.3%
N/A+5.0%£702.74M£201.32M622.67125Positive News
TRG
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£701.52M£340.08M2.13N/A
CORD
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
N/AGBX 90.20
+0.9%
N/A+21.0%£690.68M£102.87M902.00N/A
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 175
+0.6%
N/A+14.5%£690.25M£97.50M833.33305Positive News
JII
JPMorgan Indian
N/AGBX 1,004
-0.6%
N/A+10.6%£689.75M£142.67M651.95N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
APAX
Apax Global Alpha
N/AGBX 140
+1.3%
N/A-8.1%£687.54M£67.10M1,555.56N/A
SOI
Schroder Oriental Income
N/AGBX 277
flat
N/A+18.3%£676.27M£-18,810,000.005,540.00180Positive News
OTV2
Octopus Titan VCT
N/AGBX 43.50
flat
N/AN/A£669.90M£-229,200,000.00-228.9530Gap Down
High Trading Volume
DGN
Asia Dragon
N/AGBX 410
-0.2%
N/A+26.7%£641.73M£-36,340,000.00-976.19N/APositive News

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This page (LON:IGV) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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