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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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ESO vs. ASEI, IGV, ARR, UAV, ACIC, HANA, AUGM, JSGI, BASC, and MTU

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust (ASEI), Income & Growth VCT (IGV), Aurora Investment Trust (ARR), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), abrdn China Investment (ACIC), Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A' (HANA), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), and Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs.

EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) and Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust (LON:ASEI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

13.6% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. 53.1% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
EPE Special Opportunities-10.57% -0.41% 0.41%
Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust N/A N/A N/A

EPE Special Opportunities received 92 more outperform votes than Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.97% of users gave EPE Special Opportunities an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
EPE Special OpportunitiesOutperform Votes
104
67.97%
Underperform Votes
49
32.03%
Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc TrustOutperform Votes
12
66.67%
Underperform Votes
6
33.33%

In the previous week, EPE Special Opportunities had 1 more articles in the media than Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities and 0 mentions for Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust. EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that EPE Special Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
EPE Special Opportunities Positive
Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust Neutral

EPE Special Opportunities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust. EPE Special Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
EPE Special Opportunities£3.75M11.86£12.80M-£0.01-15,700.00
Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust£56.72M3.12N/A£113.203.26

Summary

EPE Special Opportunities beats Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£44.48M£860.59M£3.48B£1.45B
Dividend YieldN/A13.34%4.53%11.41%
P/E Ratio-15,700.00768.79428.801,587.66
Price / Sales11.8613,400.572,052.43225,724.00
Price / Cash1.7985.7549.9934.26
Price / Book0.481.751.482.86
Net Income£12.80M£61.47M£346.54M£136.51M
7 Day Performance-1.88%-0.21%0.19%-0.55%
1 Month Performance1.74%-0.49%0.73%3.42%
1 Year Performance-4.56%10.36%15.81%100.47%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 157
-1.9%
N/A-3.3%£44.48M£3.75M-15,700.00N/APositive News
ASEI
Aberdeen Standard Equity Inc Trust
N/AGBX 369
-0.1%
N/A+0.0%£177.24M£56.72M3.26N/A
IGV
Income & Growth VCT
N/AGBX 66
flat
N/A-6.6%£176.43M£12.36M1,650.00N/AGap Down
ARR
Aurora Investment Trust
N/AGBX 230
-0.6%
N/A+3.3%£175.47M£56.99M328.57N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
UAV
Unicorn AIM VCT
N/AGBX 91
flat
N/A-10.3%£175.30M£-5,670,000.00-1,516.67N/A
ACIC
abrdn China Investment
N/AN/AN/AN/A£175.29M£-22,820,000.00-761.11470
HANA
Hansa Investment Company Ltd 'A'
N/AGBX 218.05
-3.5%
N/A+16.6%£174.44M£96.54M300.51N/A
AUGM
Augmentum Fintech
N/AGBX 102
+0.5%
N/A+24.1%£174.01MN/A3,400.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
JSGI
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income
N/AGBX 322
+0.3%
N/A+8.1%£173.59M£10.36M1,894.12N/A
BASC
Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,430
+2.1%
N/A+20.4%£169.60M£12.15M1,787.50N/A
MTU
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 101
+0.5%
N/A+5.3%£169.05M£20.32M918.18N/A

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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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