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Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF) Competitors

GBX 165.87 +26.87 (+19.33%)
As of 02/21/2025

WKOF vs. JAI, DIG, ORIT, HFEL, MWY, HINT, CTPE, ANII, BIPS, and BBH

Should you be buying Weiss Korea Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Weiss Korea Opportunity include JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust (JAI), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), Henderson Far East Income (HFEL), Mid Wynd International Inv Tr (MWY), Henderson International Income (HINT), CT Private Equity Trust (CTPE), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), Invesco Bond Income Plus (BIPS), and Bellevue Healthcare (BBH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Weiss Korea Opportunity vs.

Weiss Korea Opportunity (LON:WKOF) and JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust (LON:JAI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings and dividends.

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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Weiss Korea Opportunity has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust. JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Weiss Korea Opportunity£5.20M22.10£6.84M£9.8816.79
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust£25.05M0.00N/A£22.90N/A

In the previous week, Weiss Korea Opportunity's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Weiss Korea Opportunity Neutral
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust Neutral

Weiss Korea Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.16 per share. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays out 50.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust pays out 0.7% 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.

JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust received 23 more outperform votes than Weiss Korea Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.35% of users gave Weiss Korea Opportunity an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Weiss Korea OpportunityOutperform Votes
69
66.35%
Underperform Votes
35
33.65%
JP Morgan Asian Investment TrustOutperform Votes
92
57.14%
Underperform Votes
69
42.86%

Weiss Korea Opportunity has a net margin of 131.62% compared to JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Weiss Korea Opportunity's return on equity of 5.86% beat JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Weiss Korea Opportunity131.62% 5.86% N/A
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust N/A N/A N/A

Summary

Weiss Korea Opportunity beats JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WKOF vs. The Competition

MetricWeiss Korea OpportunityAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£114.89M£1.23B£4.26B£2.65B
Dividend Yield3.73%4.47%4.22%4.99%
P/E Ratio16.7926.4116.02162.70
Price / Sales22.102,365.211,770.76314,812.14
Price / CashN/A60.7449.0928.17
Price / Book0.981.153.415.17
Net Income£6.84M£257.22M£1.27B£5.77B
7 Day Performance19.33%-0.37%-0.23%-0.99%
1 Month Performance22.68%0.39%1.69%-0.83%
1 Year Performance-4.86%9.90%14.41%38.84%

Weiss Korea Opportunity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WKOF
Weiss Korea Opportunity
N/AGBX 165.87
+19.3%
N/A-6.0%£114.89M£5.20M16.79N/AGap Up
JAI
JP Morgan Asian Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£377.27M£25.05M17.51N/A
DIG
Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
N/AGBX 281
+0.0%
N/A+2.9%£377.10M£40.96M10.36N/ADividend Announcement
News Coverage
ORIT
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
N/AGBX 67.70
0.0%
N/A-18.4%£375.92M£28.91M20.71N/APositive News
HFEL
Henderson Far East Income
N/AGBX 226.11
-0.2%
N/A+5.8%£367.45M£-1,751,276.83-35.62N/A
MWY
Mid Wynd International Inv Tr
N/AGBX 817.50
+0.3%
N/A+4.1%£366.59M£46.65M8.26N/A
HINT
Henderson International Income
N/AGBX 182.67
-0.7%
N/A+17.3%£358.09M£38.86M10.27N/A
CTPE
CT Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 496.67
-0.7%
N/A+3.7%£356.07M£9.01M66.10N/ADividend Announcement
ANII
abrdn New India Investment Trust
N/AGBX 726.04
+0.0%
N/A+9.3%£352.36M£149.92M3.02N/A
BIPS
Invesco Bond Income Plus
N/AGBX 171.86
-0.4%
N/A+0.9%£349M£25.14M8.80N/ADividend Announcement
BBH
Bellevue Healthcare
N/AGBX 141.61
-0.1%
N/A-6.9%£349.00M£-9,595,061.74-21.54N/A

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This page (LON:WKOF) was last updated on 2/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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