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Income & Growth VCT (IGV) Competitors

GBX 64.50 -1.50 (-2.27%)
(As of 12/20/2024 11:48 AM ET)

IGV vs. TRG, APAX, VOF, SOI, OTV2, DGN, ESCT, SYNC, BRSC, and BGFD

Should you be buying Income & Growth VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Income & Growth VCT include The European Smaller Companies Trust (TRG), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), Asia Dragon (DGN), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), Syncona (SYNC), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), and The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Income & Growth VCT vs.

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

Income & Growth VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.5%. The European Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share. 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. The European Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

In the previous week, Income & Growth VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled The European Smaller Companies Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Income & Growth VCT Neutral
The European Smaller Companies Trust Neutral

Income & Growth VCT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than The European Smaller Companies Trust. The European 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
Income & Growth VCT£12.36M13.95£9.11M£0.041,612.50
The European Smaller Companies Trust£340.08M0.00N/A£82.00N/A

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

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Income & Growth VCT73.70% 7.65% 4.76%
The European Smaller Companies Trust N/A N/A N/A

The European Smaller Companies Trust received 30 more outperform votes than Income & Growth VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.05% of users gave The European Smaller Companies Trust an outperform vote while only 59.18% of users gave Income & Growth VCT an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Income & Growth VCTOutperform Votes
29
59.18%
Underperform Votes
20
40.82%
The European Smaller Companies TrustOutperform Votes
59
67.05%
Underperform Votes
29
32.95%

Summary

Income & Growth VCT and The European Smaller Companies Trust tied by winning 5 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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IGV vs. The Competition

MetricIncome & Growth VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£172.42M£1.08B£3.73B£1.89B
Dividend Yield14.18%4.70%4.43%5.46%
P/E Ratio1,612.50802.06418.741,846.95
Price / Sales13.951,453.231,744.90390,245.05
Price / Cash2.5464.8952.5328.65
Price / Book0.871.141.372.79
Net Income£9.11M£64.78M£361.47M£155.66M
7 Day Performance-2.27%-1.95%-1.62%-2.02%
1 Month Performance-0.77%-0.25%0.23%21.50%
1 Year Performance-3.73%7.18%9.87%29.47%

Income & Growth VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IGV
Income & Growth VCT
N/AGBX 64.50
-2.3%
N/A-3.7%£172.42M£12.36M1,612.50N/AGap Down
TRG
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 175
-1.8%
N/AN/A£701.52M£340.08M2.13N/A
APAX
Apax Global Alpha
N/AGBX 140.40
+0.7%
N/A-14.9%£689.50M£67.10M1,548.89N/A
VOF
VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund
N/AGBX 448.50
-0.8%
N/A+1.5%£674.90M£201.32M598.00125
SOI
Schroder Oriental Income
N/AGBX 275.75
+0.3%
N/A+9.1%£673.22M£-18,810,000.005,506.12180
OTV2
Octopus Titan VCT
N/AGBX 43.50
-1.8%
N/A-33.1%£669.90M£-229,200,000.00-228.9530
DGN
Asia Dragon
N/AGBX 426
-0.2%
N/A+23.5%£666.78M£-36,340,000.00-1,016.67N/A
ESCT
The European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 168.80
-0.9%
N/A+4.3%£665.80M£97.50M811.43305Positive News
SYNC
Syncona
N/AGBX 103.60
+0.8%
N/A-14.1%£660.90M£30.75M10,280.001,208
BRSC
BlackRock Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,359.21
-0.9%
N/A-2.3%£640.19M£-25,360,000.00-1,998.84N/AHigh Trading Volume
BGFD
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust
N/AGBX 726
+0.3%
N/A+2.9%£633.94M£9.55M3,447.62N/A

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This page (LON:IGV) was last updated on 12/22/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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