Invesco Asia Trust (IAT) Competitors

Invesco Asia Trust (LON:IAT) and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (LON:APEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer IAT or APEO?

Invesco Asia Trust received 94 more outperform votes than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Invesco Asia Trust	Outperform Votes 94 76.42%	Underperform Votes 29 23.58%
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities	N/A	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in IAT or APEO?

59.7% of Invesco Asia Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Invesco Asia Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is IAT or APEO more profitable?

abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a net margin of 76.01% compared to Invesco Asia Trust's net margin of 56.35%. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' return on equity of 5.18% beat Invesco Asia Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Invesco Asia Trust	56.35%	2.30%	1.81%
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities	76.01%	5.18%	3.35%

Which has more volatility & risk, IAT or APEO?

Invesco Asia Trust has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is IAT or APEO a better dividend stock?

Invesco Asia Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Invesco Asia Trust pays out 18,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays out 4,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the media refer more to IAT or APEO?

In the previous week, Invesco Asia Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled abrdn Private Equity Opportunities'average media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Invesco Asia Trust	Neutral
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, IAT or APEO?

abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Asia Trust. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Invesco Asia Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Invesco Asia Trust	£9.87M	22.42	£5.56M	£0.08	4,262.50
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities	£80.21M	10.97	£60.96M	£0.40	1,435.00

Summary

abrdn Private Equity Opportunities beats Invesco Asia Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.