Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF) Competitors

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment (LON:AEMC) and Weiss Korea Opportunity (LON:WKOF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and valuation.

Does the media favor AEMC or WKOF?

In the previous week, Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Weiss Korea Opportunity'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment	Neutral
Weiss Korea Opportunity	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, AEMC or WKOF?

Weiss Korea Opportunity has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment. Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Weiss Korea Opportunity, 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
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment	£132.92M	0.00	N/A	£280.70	N/A
Weiss Korea Opportunity	£5.20M	15.45	£6.84M	£9.88	11.74

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AEMC or WKOF?

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment received 34 more outperform votes than Weiss Korea Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.07% of users gave Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment an outperform vote while only 66.35% of users gave Weiss Korea Opportunity an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment	Outperform Votes 103 70.07%	Underperform Votes 44 29.93%
Weiss Korea Opportunity	Outperform Votes 69 66.35%	Underperform Votes 35 33.65%

Do insiders and institutionals believe in AEMC or WKOF?

74.0% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 13.8% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is AEMC or WKOF a better dividend stock?

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.22 per share. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays out 50.6% 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.

Is AEMC or WKOF more profitable?

Weiss Korea Opportunity has a net margin of 131.62% compared to Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Weiss Korea Opportunity's return on equity of 5.86% beat Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Weiss Korea Opportunity	131.62%	5.86%	N/A

Summary

Weiss Korea Opportunity beats Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.