ESO vs. BASC, IGV, MMIT, TV1, AUGM, IVI, TIGT, JUS, JZCP, and DORE
Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Income & Growth VCT (IGV), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), and Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
EPE Special Opportunities vs.
EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) and Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (LON:BASC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies has a net margin of 69.75% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 2.63% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.
EPE Special Opportunities received 104 more outperform votes than Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies had 2 more articles in the media than EPE Special Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies and 0 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities. Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat EPE Special Opportunities' score of 0.00 indicating that Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.6% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 53.1% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies shares are owned 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.
EPE Special Opportunities has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies. EPE Special Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EPE Special Opportunities has a beta of 0.9, meaning that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies beats EPE Special Opportunities on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
