HPI vs VBNK Comparison

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its primary investment objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital. The fund's secondary investment objective is to provide growth of capital to the extent consistent with its primary investment objective. It seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in securities that may be undervalued relative to similar securities in the marketplace. The fund's principal investment strategies include investing a majority of its assets in preferred stocks and other preferred securities. Its portfolio composition consists of U.S preferred securities, common stocks, foreign preferred securities, corporate bonds, and short-term investments.

VersaBank is a Canadian Schedule I chartered bank with a difference. It has 3 operating segments: Digital Banking Canada, Digital Banking USA and DRTC. It's, cloud-based, business-to-business deposit and lending model provides valued-added solutions to Canadian financial intermediary partners, enabling them to focus on growing their own businesses faster and more profitably. It obtains all of its deposits and provides the majority of its loans and leases electronically, with deposit and lending solutions for financial intermediaries that allow them to excel in their core businesses. In addition, leveraging its internally developed IT security software and capabilities, Company established a wholly owned, subsidiary. Geographically located in Canada and USA.