VSL vs. JUSC, HHI, LIO, JAGI, RECI, HAN, HANA, ARR, IPX, and BGUK
Should you be buying VPC Specialty Lending Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments include JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (JUSC), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), Liontrust Asset Management (LIO), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI), Hansa Investment (HAN), Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), Aurora Investment Trust (ARR), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), and Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (BGUK). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments vs.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LON:VSL) and JPMorgan US Smaller Companies (LON:JUSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, VPC Specialty Lending Investments and VPC Specialty Lending Investments both had 1 articles in the media. VPC Specialty Lending Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' score of 0.48 indicating that VPC Specialty Lending Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.15, meaning that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.6% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.1% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.4% of VPC Specialty Lending Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments received 16 more outperform votes than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.63% of users gave JPMorgan US Smaller Companies an outperform vote while only 61.33% of users gave VPC Specialty Lending Investments an outperform vote.
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies has higher revenue and earnings than VPC Specialty Lending Investments. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan US Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has a net margin of 126.83% compared to JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' net margin of 71.91%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 4.45% beat VPC Specialty Lending Investments' return on equity.
VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 28.6%. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. VPC Specialty Lending Investments pays out -71.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JPMorgan US Smaller Companies pays out 15.4% 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. VPC Specialty Lending Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
JPMorgan US Smaller Companies beats VPC Specialty Lending Investments on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:VSL) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
