AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) Competitors

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (LON:JESC) and AVI Japan Opportunity (LON:AJOT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.

Is JESC or AJOT a better dividend stock?

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.07 per share. AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AVI Japan Opportunity pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in JESC or AJOT?

56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better earnings and valuation, JESC or AJOT?

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AVI Japan Opportunity, 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
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust	£114.05M	0.00	N/A	£65.70	N/A
AVI Japan Opportunity	N/A	N/A	N/A	£0.12	1,183.33

Is JESC or AJOT more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
AVI Japan Opportunity	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor JESC or AJOT?

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust received 72 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust	Outperform Votes 72 70.59%	Underperform Votes 30 29.41%
AVI Japan Opportunity	N/A	N/A

Does the media favor JESC or AJOT?

In the previous week, JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AVI Japan Opportunity'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust	Neutral
AVI Japan Opportunity	Neutral

Summary

JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust and AVI Japan Opportunity tied by winning 4 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.