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AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) Competitors

GBX 179 -1.25 (-0.69%)
As of 11:52 AM Eastern

AJOT vs. ICGT, APAX, IEM, RICA, CGT, SAIN, JEO, MUT, APEO, and VOF

Should you be buying AVI Japan Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Japan Opportunity include ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Apax Global Alpha (APAX), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Murray Income Trust (MUT), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), and VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

AVI Japan Opportunity vs. Its Competitors

ICG Enterprise Trust (LON:ICGT) and AVI Japan Opportunity (LON:AJOT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

In the previous week, ICG Enterprise Trust had 3 more articles in the media than AVI Japan Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ICG Enterprise Trust and 0 mentions for AVI Japan Opportunity. ICG Enterprise Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat AVI Japan Opportunity's score of 0.00 indicating that ICG Enterprise Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
ICG Enterprise Trust Very Positive
AVI Japan Opportunity Neutral

ICG Enterprise Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 34 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. ICG Enterprise Trust pays out 67.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AVI Japan Opportunity pays out 11.3% 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.

ICG Enterprise Trust has higher revenue and earnings than AVI Japan Opportunity. AVI Japan Opportunity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG Enterprise Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
ICG Enterprise Trust£55.63M16.92£32.56M£50.0829.07
AVI Japan Opportunity£25.37M9.63£24.10M£17.6410.15

65.6% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.3% of ICG Enterprise Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

AVI Japan Opportunity has a net margin of 94.99% compared to ICG Enterprise Trust's net margin of 58.54%. AVI Japan Opportunity's return on equity of 14.58% beat ICG Enterprise Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ICG Enterprise Trust58.54% 2.61% 0.78%
AVI Japan Opportunity 94.99%14.58%N/A

Summary

ICG Enterprise Trust beats AVI Japan Opportunity on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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AJOT vs. The Competition

MetricAVI Japan OpportunityAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£244.33M£1.29B£6.44B£3.20B
Dividend Yield1.13%4.41%4.18%5.04%
P/E Ratio10.1522.6314.36165.53
Price / Sales9.632,490.001,786.37310,183.61
Price / CashN/A60.70127.3627.94
Price / Book1.371.415.206.00
Net Income£24.10M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance2.87%-0.12%-0.07%53.73%
1 Month Performance6.87%0.50%1.76%49.09%
1 Year Performance30.66%6.72%26.33%106.09%

AVI Japan Opportunity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJOT
AVI Japan Opportunity
N/AGBX 179
-0.7%
N/A+31.2%£244.33M£25.37M10.15N/A
ICGT
ICG Enterprise Trust
N/AGBX 1,472
+1.0%
N/A+14.7%£951.33M£55.63M29.39N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
APAX
Apax Global Alpha
N/AGBX 162.60
+0.2%
N/A+14.6%£949.36M£9.05M275.86N/AHigh Trading Volume
IEM
Impax Environmental Markets
N/AGBX 396.90
-0.2%
N/A+1.7%£921.40M£1.35M-98.72N/A
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 285
+0.2%
N/A+2.7%£917.06M£16.91M103.67N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,810
-0.3%
N/A+0.5%£894.54M£17.92M19.56N/A
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 510.40
+0.1%
N/A-1.7%£892.47M£75.38M10.23N/A
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M-£62.33M-12.93N/A
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 883.36
-0.2%
N/A+1.6%£882.55M£97.96M9.73147,000Dividend Cut
High Trading Volume
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
VOF
VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund
N/AGBX 491
flat
N/A+2.5%£870.64M£115.59M13.09125News Coverage

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This page (LON:AJOT) was last updated on 8/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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