Endomorphisms of profinite groups

We obtain some general restrictions on the continuous endomorphisms of a profinite group G under the assumption that G has only finitely many open subgroups of each index (an assumption which automatically holds, for instance, if G is finitely generated). In particular, given such a groupG and a continuous endomorphism φ we obtain a semidirect decomposition of G into a 'contracting' normal subgroup and a complement on which φ induces an automorphism; both the normal subgroup and the complement are closed. If G is isomorphic to a proper open subgroup of itself, we show that G has an infinite abelian normal pro-p subgroup for some prime p.