EOT vs. JLEN, PHI, BUT, IPX, EWI, THRG, HSL, NAS, USA, and BRGE
Should you be buying European Opportunities Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Opportunities Trust include JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), Brunner (BUT), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Edinburgh Worldwide (EWI), BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), and BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group (LON:JLEN) and European Opportunities Trust (LON:EOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. European Opportunities Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group pays out 40,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. European Opportunities Trust pays out 615.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, JLEN Environmental Assets Group had 1 more articles in the media than European Opportunities Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JLEN Environmental Assets Group and 0 mentions for European Opportunities Trust. European Opportunities Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat JLEN Environmental Assets Group's score of 0.00 indicating that JLEN Environmental Assets Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
41.9% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of European Opportunities Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of JLEN Environmental Assets Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.8% of European Opportunities Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 126, suggesting a potential upside of 41.89%. Given European Opportunities Trust's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe JLEN Environmental Assets Group is more favorable than European Opportunities Trust.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group received 81 more outperform votes than European Opportunities Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
European Opportunities Trust has a net margin of 82.32% compared to European Opportunities Trust's net margin of 51.04%. JLEN Environmental Assets Group's return on equity of 7.40% beat European Opportunities Trust's return on equity.
European Opportunities Trust has higher revenue and earnings than JLEN Environmental Assets Group. European Opportunities Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JLEN Environmental Assets Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JLEN Environmental Assets Group has a beta of 0.28, indicating that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Opportunities Trust has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
European Opportunities Trust beats JLEN Environmental Assets Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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