Critical Analysis: Vine Hill Capital Investment (VCIC) & Its Peers

Vine Hill Capital Investment (NASDAQ:VCIC) is one of 89 publicly-traded companies in the “UNCLASSIFIED” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Vine Hill Capital Investment to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Vine Hill Capital Investment and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Vine Hill Capital Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vine Hill Capital Investment Competitors	0.86%	0.95%	0.80%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Vine Hill Capital Investment and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Vine Hill Capital Investment	1	0	0	0	1.00
Vine Hill Capital Investment Competitors	255	268	217	3	1.96

As a group, “UNCLASSIFIED” companies have a potential upside of 139.74%. Given Vine Hill Capital Investment’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Vine Hill Capital Investment has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

51.0% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by institutional investors. 44.6% of shares of all “UNCLASSIFIED” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Vine Hill Capital Investment and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Vine Hill Capital Investment	N/A	$2.28 million	76.14
Vine Hill Capital Investment Competitors	$41.37 million	-$18.84 million	70.89

Vine Hill Capital Investment’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Vine Hill Capital Investment. Vine Hill Capital Investment is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Vine Hill Capital Investment peers beat Vine Hill Capital Investment on 10 of the 12 factors compared.

Vine Hill Capital Investment Company Profile

Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. is a blank check company. It formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.