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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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GBX 135.20 -6.80 (-4.79%)
As of 01/20/2025 12:39 PM Eastern

ESO vs. MMIT, TV1, MTU, IVI, TIGT, JUS, ASIT, PVN, IGC, and CVCG

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), ProVen VCT (PVN), India Capital Growth (IGC), and CVC Income & Growth GBP (CVCG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs.

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

Mobius Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than EPE Special Opportunities. EPE Special Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobius Investment 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£3.75M10.21£12.80M-£0.01-13,520.00
Mobius Investment Trust£17.24M9.77£13.13M£0.121,216.67

Mobius Investment Trust has a net margin of 76.16% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Mobius Investment Trust's return on equity of 8.45% 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%
Mobius Investment Trust 76.16%8.45%5.89%

EPE Special Opportunities has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobius Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

13.6% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.2% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.1% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Mobius Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Mobius Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than EPE Special Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mobius Investment Trust and 0 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities. Mobius Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat EPE Special Opportunities' score of 0.00 indicating that Mobius Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
EPE Special Opportunities Neutral
Mobius Investment Trust Very Positive

EPE Special Opportunities received 87 more outperform votes than Mobius Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.83% of users gave Mobius Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 67.97% of users gave EPE Special Opportunities an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
EPE Special OpportunitiesOutperform Votes
104
67.97%
Underperform Votes
49
32.03%
Mobius Investment TrustOutperform Votes
17
70.83%
Underperform Votes
7
29.17%

Summary

Mobius Investment Trust beats EPE Special Opportunities on 11 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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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£38.30M£1.12B£3.87B£2.04B
Dividend YieldN/A4.65%4.43%5.16%
P/E Ratio-13,520.00810.51428.581,926.65
Price / Sales10.211,498.552,647.34384,006.48
Price / Cash1.7966.0853.1729.21
Price / Book0.421.171.913.08
Net Income£12.80M£61.96M£440.86M£183.60M
7 Day Performance-7.40%1.97%2.93%3.09%
1 Month Performance-11.05%2.17%5.02%3.42%
1 Year Performance-14.43%11.26%15.02%165.41%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 135.20
-4.8%
N/A-14.4%£38.30M£3.75M-13,520.00N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
MMIT
Mobius Investment Trust
N/AGBX 143
-0.3%
N/A+11.5%£165.05M£17.24M1,191.67N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down
TV1
Thames Ventures VCT 1
N/AGBX 95.50
flat
N/AN/A£164.95M£-3,640,000.00-2,387.50N/A
MTU
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 98.40
-0.8%
N/A+2.9%£164.70M£20.32M894.55N/A
IVI
Invesco Income Growth Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£162.22M£-28,622,000.00-5.42N/A
TIGT
Troy Income & Growth
N/AN/AN/AN/A£162.08M£-7,860,000.00-2,320.00N/AGap Down
JUS
Jupiter US Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£159.73M£-3,316,000.00-31.64N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
ASIT
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£158.86M£821,000.00927.78N/AGap Up
PVN
ProVen VCT
N/AGBX 58.50
flat
N/AN/A£156.47M£12.40M1,950.00N/ANews Coverage
IGC
India Capital Growth
N/AGBX 180.50
+0.6%
N/A+0.0%£156.30M£40.31M451.2561Positive News
CVCG
CVC Income & Growth GBP
N/AGBX 122.43
+2.0%
N/A+16.9%£155.81MN/A2,448.64N/A

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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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