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AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) Competitors

GBX 162.35 -0.15 (-0.09%)
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AJOT vs. SAIN, SLPE, TMPL, TFIF, AGT.LN, MUT, JESC, OCI, MRCH, and BGSC

Should you be buying AVI Japan Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Japan Opportunity include Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Temple Bar (TMPL), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), AVI Global Trust (AGT.LN), Murray Income Trust (MUT), JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust (JESC), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), The Merchants Trust (MRCH), and BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

AVI Japan Opportunity vs.

Scottish American Investment (LON:SAIN) and AVI Japan Opportunity (LON:AJOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Scottish American Investment has higher revenue and earnings than AVI Japan Opportunity. AVI Japan Opportunity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Scottish American Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Scottish American Investment£75.38M11.41£87.22M£49.879.86
AVI Japan Opportunity£25.37M8.73£24.10M£17.649.20

Scottish American Investment received 4 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Scottish American InvestmentOutperform Votes
4
80.00%
Underperform Votes
1
20.00%
AVI Japan OpportunityN/AN/A

Scottish American Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 14 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Scottish American Investment pays out 28.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AVI Japan Opportunity pays out 11.3% 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.

16.3% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Scottish American Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 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 company is poised for long-term growth.

Scottish American Investment has a net margin of 115.71% compared to AVI Japan Opportunity's net margin of 94.99%. AVI Japan Opportunity's return on equity of 14.58% beat Scottish American Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Scottish American Investment115.71% 9.33% 5.89%
AVI Japan Opportunity 94.99%14.58%N/A

In the previous week, Scottish American Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AVI Japan Opportunity'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Scottish American Investment Neutral
AVI Japan Opportunity Neutral

Summary

Scottish American Investment beats AVI Japan Opportunity on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AJOT vs. The Competition

MetricAVI Japan OpportunityAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£221.60M£1.13B£3.80B£2.53B
Dividend Yield1.13%4.45%4.21%4.96%
P/E Ratio9.2024.4514.22132.82
Price / Sales8.732,216.451,646.19233,318.41
Price / CashN/A61.1450.2928.02
Price / Book1.241.123.384.49
Net Income£24.10M£261.65M£1.24B£5.81B
7 Day Performance2.43%1.59%8.78%8.58%
1 Month Performance-0.60%3.51%8.81%7.23%
1 Year Performance30.40%2.43%10.35%25.25%

AVI Japan Opportunity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJOT
AVI Japan Opportunity
N/AGBX 162.35
-0.1%
N/A+27.3%£221.60M£25.37M9.20N/A
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 485.50
-0.2%
N/A-1.3%£848.93M£75.38M9.73N/A
SLPE
Standard Life Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 540
+1.5%
N/A+10.4%£830.23M£251.60M3.48N/A
TMPL
Temple Bar
N/AGBX 285.25
-0.3%
N/A+14.1%£816.05M£157.64M5.30N/A
TFIF
TwentyFour Income
N/AGBX 108.83
-3.7%
N/A+4.1%£814.58M£55.96M0.94N/A
AGT.LN
AVI Global Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£812.93M£51.62M20.82N/AHigh Trading Volume
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 810.60
-0.3%
N/A-2.6%£809.86M£97.96M8.93147,000Dividend Cut
JESC
JPMorgan European Smaller Companies Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£795.72M£114.05M7.60N/A
OCI
Oakley Capital Investments
N/AGBX 450.50
-0.1%
N/A-4.6%£794.73M£99.08M9.03N/A
MRCH
The Merchants Trust
N/AGBX 526.50
-1.2%
N/A-1.6%£783.07M£119.93M7.19N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A

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