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abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust (AUSC) Competitors

GBX 523 -1.00 (-0.19%)
As of 07/4/2025

AUSC vs. VEIL, FGT, BNKR, LWDB, TFG, ASL, FCSS, JMG, BLU, and FSV

Should you be buying abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust include Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR), Law Debenture (LWDB), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG), Blue Star Capital (BLU), and Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust vs. Its Competitors

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust (LON:AUSC) and Vietnam Enterprise (LON:VEIL) 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 valuation, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.

58.0% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.1% of Vietnam Enterprise shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Vietnam Enterprise shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Vietnam Enterprise had 4 more articles in the media than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Vietnam Enterprise and 0 mentions for abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust. Vietnam Enterprise's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Vietnam Enterprise is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust Neutral
Vietnam Enterprise Positive

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust has a net margin of 90.72% compared to Vietnam Enterprise's net margin of -23.73%. abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust's return on equity of 13.68% beat Vietnam Enterprise's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust90.72% 13.68% -4.68%
Vietnam Enterprise -23.73%-0.22%-7.53%

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Vietnam Enterprise. Vietnam Enterprise is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust£54.96M6.42£49.86M£73.877.08
Vietnam Enterprise£17.87M78.89-£4.24M-£1.48-416.06

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vietnam Enterprise has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust beats Vietnam Enterprise on 10 of the 13 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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AUSC vs. The Competition

Metricabrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£353.03M£1.25B£6.15B£2.96B
Dividend Yield2.35%4.35%4.17%5.02%
P/E Ratio7.0821.8113.23147.88
Price / Sales6.422,406.261,781.00258,917.23
Price / Cash28.6660.8149.7227.97
Price / Book0.971.211.914.61
Net Income£49.86M£264.68M£1.23B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-0.48%0.37%0.56%1.04%
1 Month Performance0.87%2.46%2.99%4.36%
1 Year Performance4.81%6.26%15.69%82.36%

abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AUSC
abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust
N/AGBX 523
-0.2%
N/A+4.8%£353.03M£54.96M7.08N/A
VEIL
Vietnam Enterprise
N/AGBX 600
-0.2%
N/A+2.2%£1.37B£17.87M-405.26N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
FGT
Finsbury Growth & Income
N/AGBX 907
+1.3%
N/A+7.5%£1.35B£101.41M14.90N/APositive News
BNKR
The Bankers Investment Trust
N/AGBX 120
+1.5%
N/A+6.1%£1.33B£231.92M6.08N/APositive News
LWDB
Law Debenture
N/AGBX 1,002
+1.2%
N/A+12.9%£1.33B£203.87M9.33260
TFG
Tetragon Financial
N/AGBX 16.10
+0.6%
N/A+56.6%£1.31B£22.12B10.33N/A
ASL
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 1,550
+1.7%
N/A-2.4%£1.29B£226.05M5.09N/ANews Coverage
FCSS
Fidelity China Special
N/AGBX 250.50
-0.2%
N/A+28.0%£1.24B-£177.57M1.24N/A
JMG
JPMorgan Emerging Markets
N/AGBX 115.60
-0.5%
N/A+7.2%£1.22B£97.45M15.32N/A
BLU
Blue Star Capital
N/AGBX 23.80
+10.7%
N/A+68,233.3%£1.21B-£5.16M1.903News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
FSV
Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values
N/AGBX 369.50
+1.2%
N/A+17.7%£1.20B£237.18M5.3725,000Positive News

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This page (LON:AUSC) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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