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AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) Competitors

GBX 171.33 +0.83 (+0.49%)
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AJOT vs. RICA, TMPL, JEO, CGT, OCI, SAIN, APEO, ICGT, SLPE, and MUT

Should you be buying AVI Japan Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Japan Opportunity include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Capital Gearing (CGT), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

AVI Japan Opportunity vs. Its Competitors

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

In the previous week, Ruffer Investment had 1 more articles in the media than AVI Japan Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Ruffer Investment and 0 mentions for AVI Japan Opportunity. Ruffer Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat AVI Japan Opportunity's score of 0.00 indicating that Ruffer Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
AVI Japan Opportunity Neutral
Ruffer Investment Positive

Ruffer Investment received 97 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AVI Japan OpportunityN/AN/A
Ruffer InvestmentOutperform Votes
97
63.82%
Underperform Votes
55
36.18%

56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AVI Japan Opportunity£25.37M9.22£24.10M£17.649.71
Ruffer Investment£16.91M53.95£8.78M£2.75103.12

AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. AVI Japan Opportunity pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

AVI Japan Opportunity has a net margin of 94.99% compared to Ruffer Investment's net margin of 51.94%. AVI Japan Opportunity's return on equity of 14.58% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AVI Japan Opportunity94.99% 14.58% N/A
Ruffer Investment 51.94%0.96%0.45%

Summary

AVI Japan Opportunity beats Ruffer Investment on 8 of the 15 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£233.86M£1.21B£5.68B£2.92B
Dividend Yield1.13%4.34%4.13%4.90%
P/E Ratio9.7121.5012.67119.50
Price / Sales9.222,398.511,711.83242,015.15
Price / CashN/A60.8149.9228.07
Price / Book1.311.173.164.73
Net Income£24.10M£264.77M£1.23B£5.91B
7 Day Performance1.38%11.94%5.83%6.51%
1 Month Performance8.09%13.74%7.55%13.46%
1 Year Performance30.78%5.17%14.93%28.79%

AVI Japan Opportunity Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AJOT
AVI Japan Opportunity
N/AGBX 171.33
+0.5%
N/A+30.2%£233.86M£25.37M9.71N/AHigh Trading Volume
RICA
Ruffer Investment
N/AGBX 284.50
+0.4%
N/A+5.4%£915.45M£16.91M103.49N/A
TMPL
Temple Bar
N/AGBX 316
-0.9%
N/A+23.2%£904.02M£157.64M5.87N/ANews Coverage
JEO
European Opportunities Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£886.70M-£62.33M-12.93N/A
CGT
Capital Gearing
N/AGBX 4,765
-0.1%
N/A+2.0%£886.17M£17.92M19.37N/APositive News
OCI
Oakley Capital Investments
N/AGBX 500
+0.6%
N/A+1.6%£882.05M£99.08M10.02N/A
SAIN
Scottish American Investment
N/AGBX 503.58
-0.5%
N/A-0.5%£880.54M£75.38M10.10N/A
APEO
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities
N/AN/AN/AN/A£880.29M£80.21M1,435.00N/A
ICGT
ICG Enterprise Trust
N/AGBX 1,344
-4.3%
N/A+10.2%£868.61M£55.63M26.84N/APositive News
SLPE
Standard Life Private Equity Trust
N/AGBX 560
+1.3%
N/A+4.5%£860.98M£251.60M3.61N/APositive News
MUT
Murray Income Trust
N/AGBX 861
-0.8%
N/A+1.1%£860.21M£97.96M9.49147,000Positive News
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