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AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) Competitors

GBX 164.50 -0.50 (-0.30%)
As of 02/21/2025 11:46 AM Eastern

AJOT vs. CGT, RICA, JEO, APEO, SLPE, ICGT, MUT, TFIF, TMPL, and OCI

Should you be buying AVI Japan Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Japan Opportunity include Capital Gearing (CGT), Ruffer Investment (RICA), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Murray Income Trust (MUT), TwentyFour Income (TFIF), Temple Bar (TMPL), and Oakley Capital Investments (OCI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

AVI Japan Opportunity vs.

Capital Gearing (LON:CGT) and AVI Japan Opportunity (LON:AJOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

16.2% of Capital Gearing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 7.0% of Capital Gearing 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, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Capital Gearing received 121 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Capital GearingOutperform Votes
121
77.56%
Underperform Votes
35
22.44%
AVI Japan OpportunityN/AN/A

Capital Gearing pays an annual dividend of GBX 60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Capital Gearing pays out 24.4% 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.

In the previous week, Capital Gearing had 2 more articles in the media than AVI Japan Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Capital Gearing and 0 mentions for AVI Japan Opportunity. Capital Gearing's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat AVI Japan Opportunity's score of 0.00 indicating that Capital Gearing is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Capital Gearing Positive
AVI Japan Opportunity Neutral

Capital Gearing has a net margin of 255.48% compared to AVI Japan Opportunity's net margin of 94.99%. AVI Japan Opportunity's return on equity of 14.58% beat Capital Gearing's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Capital Gearing255.48% 5.25% -2.63%
AVI Japan Opportunity 94.99%14.58%N/A

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Capital Gearing£17.92M50.18£45.77M£245.9619.66
AVI Japan Opportunity£25.37M8.85£24.10M£17.649.32

Summary

Capital Gearing beats AVI Japan Opportunity on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AJOT vs. The Competition

MetricAVI Japan OpportunityAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£224.54M£1.23B£4.26B£2.65B
Dividend Yield1.13%4.47%4.22%4.99%
P/E Ratio9.3226.4116.02162.70
Price / Sales8.852,365.211,770.76314,812.14
Price / CashN/A60.7449.0928.17
Price / Book1.261.153.415.17
Net Income£24.10M£257.22M£1.27B£5.77B
7 Day Performance-0.30%-0.37%-0.23%-0.99%
1 Month Performance7.87%0.39%1.69%-0.83%
1 Year Performance31.60%9.90%14.41%38.83%

AVI Japan Opportunity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJOT
AVI Japan Opportunity
N/AGBX 164.50
-0.3%
N/A+33.2%£224.54M£25.37M9.32N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,848
-0.6%
N/A+4.0%£901.60M£17.92M19.71N/ANews Coverage
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 279.50
-0.5%
N/A+6.6%£899.36M£16.91M101.67N/ANews Coverage
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M£-62,326,000.00-12.93N/A
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
SLPE
Standard Life Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 558
-0.9%
N/A+10.0%£857.90M£251.60M3.60N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
ICGT
ICG Enterprise Trust
N/AGBX 1,314
+0.3%
N/A+12.0%£849.22M£55.63M26.24N/A
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 849
-0.9%
N/A+4.1%£848.22M£97.96M9.35147,000Dividend Cut
News Coverage
TFIF
TwentyFour Income
N/AGBX 113.20
+1.1%
N/A+5.5%£847.33M£55.96M0.98N/ANews Coverage
TMPL
Temple Bar
N/AGBX 294.43
+0.7%
N/A+25.5%£842.29M£157.64M5.47N/AHigh Trading Volume
OCI
Oakley Capital Investments
N/AGBX 464.21
-0.3%
N/A-1.7%£818.92M£99.08M9.30N/A

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This page (LON:AJOT) was last updated on 2/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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