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European Assets Trust (EAT) Competitors

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EAT vs. JMG, EDIN, FSV, TFG, HRI, IHP, GSS, BPCR, TRY, and AGT

Should you be buying European Assets Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of European Assets Trust include JPMorgan Emerging Markets (JMG), Edinburgh Investment (EDIN), Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values (FSV), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Herald (HRI), IntegraFin (IHP), Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (GSS), BioPharma Credit (BPCR), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), and AVI Global Trust (AGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

European Assets Trust vs.

JPMorgan Emerging Markets (LON:JMG) and European Assets Trust (LON:EAT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

European Assets Trust received 32 more outperform votes than JPMorgan Emerging Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.73% of users gave JPMorgan Emerging Markets an outperform vote while only 65.09% of users gave European Assets Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
JPMorgan Emerging MarketsOutperform Votes
78
75.73%
Underperform Votes
25
24.27%
European Assets TrustOutperform Votes
110
65.09%
Underperform Votes
59
34.91%

48.5% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.0% of European Assets Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of JPMorgan Emerging Markets shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of European Assets Trust shares are held by company 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.

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a net margin of 82.19% compared to European Assets Trust's net margin of 79.65%. European Assets Trust's return on equity of 7.51% beat JPMorgan Emerging Markets' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JPMorgan Emerging Markets82.19% 6.30% 1.55%
European Assets Trust 79.65%7.51%6.15%

JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. European Assets Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. JPMorgan Emerging Markets pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. European Assets Trust pays out 77.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has higher revenue and earnings than European Assets Trust. European Assets Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JPMorgan Emerging Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JPMorgan Emerging Markets£97.45M11.94£80.10M£7.5514.55
European Assets Trust£35.04M8.81£27.91M£7.7711.04

In the previous week, JPMorgan Emerging Markets had 1 more articles in the media than European Assets Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for JPMorgan Emerging Markets and 0 mentions for European Assets Trust. JPMorgan Emerging Markets' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat European Assets Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that JPMorgan Emerging Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
JPMorgan Emerging Markets Positive
European Assets Trust Neutral

JPMorgan Emerging Markets has a beta of 0.62, suggesting that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, European Assets Trust has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

JPMorgan Emerging Markets beats European Assets Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EAT vs. The Competition

MetricEuropean Assets TrustAsset Management IndustryFinance SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£308.57M£1.19B£11.47B£2.62B
Dividend Yield5.78%4.41%5.45%5.05%
P/E Ratio11.0421.9322.42129.34
Price / Sales8.812,357.1927.62221,585.85
Price / Cash15.7660.4617.6228.03
Price / Book0.871.152.773.79
Net Income£27.91M£263.32M£1.03B£5.88B
7 Day Performance0.23%0.12%-0.23%0.62%
1 Month Performance8.88%18.09%6.11%22.12%
1 Year Performance-4.67%2.19%536.61%120.95%

European Assets Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EAT
European Assets Trust
N/AGBX 86
+0.2%
N/A-4.7%£309.29M£35.04M11.07N/A
JMG
JPMorgan Emerging Markets
N/AGBX 110
-0.7%
N/A+3.6%£1.17B£97.45M14.57N/APositive News
EDIN
Edinburgh Investment
N/AGBX 802
+1.0%
N/A+9.0%£1.16B£189.32M6.42N/ATrending News
Earnings Report
FSV
Fidelity Investment Trust - Fidelity Special Values
N/AGBX 354
+0.9%
N/A+13.5%£1.15B£237.18M5.1525,000Positive News
TFG
Tetragon Financial
N/AGBX 14
+0.4%
N/AN/A£1.14B£22.12B8.98N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
HRI
Herald
N/AGBX 2,185
-0.7%
N/A-2.5%£1.10B£162.63M6.316,600
IHP
IntegraFin
3.3468 of 5 stars
GBX 327.50
+0.8%
GBX 406.67
+24.2%
-8.8%£1.09B£138.65M20.773,520News Coverage
Earnings Report
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
GSS
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.06B£250.40M6.181,626Gap Down
BPCR
BioPharma Credit
N/AGBX 0.89
+0.5%
N/A+2.7%£1.05B£12.99B10.09N/A
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 324.50
+1.1%
N/A-3.2%£1.03B£311.14M3.6326
AGT
AVI Global Trust
N/AGBX 236
+0.2%
N/A-3.7%£1.02B£219.59M4.74N/ANews Coverage

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This page (LON:EAT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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