Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT) Competitors

NextEnergy Solar Fund (LON:NESF) and Molten Ventures VCT (LON:MVCT) 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 institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in NESF or MVCT?

69.9% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Molten Ventures VCT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor NESF or MVCT?

NextEnergy Solar Fund received 89 more outperform votes than Molten Ventures VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Molten Ventures VCT an outperform vote while only 65.69% of users gave NextEnergy Solar Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
NextEnergy Solar Fund	Outperform Votes 90 65.69%	Underperform Votes 47 34.31%
Molten Ventures VCT	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes

Which has more volatility & risk, NESF or MVCT?

NextEnergy Solar Fund has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Molten Ventures VCT has a beta of 0.1, meaning that its stock price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is NESF or MVCT a better dividend stock?

NextEnergy Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Molten Ventures VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays out -341.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Molten Ventures VCT pays out -62.4% 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. NextEnergy Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, NESF or MVCT?

Molten Ventures VCT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Molten Ventures VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextEnergy Solar Fund	£3.35M	117.85	-£13.68M	-£2.34	-28.97
Molten Ventures VCT	-£2.43M	-40.57	-£8.19M	-£3.21	-11.60

Does the media favor NESF or MVCT?

In the previous week, Molten Ventures VCT had 2 more articles in the media than NextEnergy Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Molten Ventures VCT and 0 mentions for NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Molten Ventures VCT's score of -0.70 indicating that NextEnergy Solar Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
NextEnergy Solar Fund	Neutral
Molten Ventures VCT	Negative

Is NESF or MVCT more profitable?

Molten Ventures VCT has a net margin of 336.71% compared to NextEnergy Solar Fund's net margin of -408.61%. NextEnergy Solar Fund's return on equity of -2.33% beat Molten Ventures VCT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextEnergy Solar Fund	-408.61%	-2.33%	-2.16%
Molten Ventures VCT	336.71%	-6.80%	-1.38%

Summary

NextEnergy Solar Fund beats Molten Ventures VCT on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.