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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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GBX 136 -7.00 (-4.90%)
As of 09/15/2025 09:51 AM Eastern

ESO vs. JUS, ASIT, GVP, TV1, PGOO, BASC, NUC, BRNA, DUKE, and MCP

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust (GVP), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Nucleus Financial Group (NUC), BlackRock North American Income Trust (BRNA), Duke Capital (DUKE), and Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs. Its Competitors

Jupiter US Smaller Companies (LON:JUS) and EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability and risk.

In the previous week, EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Jupiter US Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that EPE Special Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Jupiter US Smaller Companies Neutral
EPE Special Opportunities Very Positive

9.8% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

EPE Special Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Jupiter US Smaller Companies. Jupiter US Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EPE Special Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Jupiter US Smaller Companies-£3.32M0.00N/A-£42.20N/A
EPE Special Opportunities£1.87M19.26£12.80M£0.0050,370.37

Jupiter US Smaller Companies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Jupiter US Smaller Companies' return on equity of 0.00% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Jupiter US Smaller CompaniesN/A N/A N/A
EPE Special Opportunities -10.57%-0.41%0.41%

Summary

EPE Special Opportunities beats Jupiter US Smaller Companies on 7 of the 9 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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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£36.10M£1.45B£6.40B£2.58B
Dividend YieldN/A4.59%4.31%5.30%
P/E Ratio50,370.374,756.171,778.745,413.74
Price / Sales19.261,967.971,346.4396,516.91
Price / Cash1.7960.6248.9927.93
Price / Book0.421.382.088.95
Net Income£12.80M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-1.45%0.53%0.82%0.51%
1 Month Performance-5.56%1.44%1.87%44.59%
1 Year Performance-10.53%8.21%31.70%173.06%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 136
-4.9%
N/A-14.2%£36.10M£1.87M50,370.37N/APositive News
Earnings Report
JUS
Jupiter US Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£159.73M-£3.32M-31.64N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume
ASIT
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£158.86M£821K927.78N/AGap Up
GVP
Gabelli Value Plus+ Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£155.29MN/A0.00310Gap Down
TV1
Thames Ventures VCT 1
N/AGBX 88.50
flat
N/AN/A£152.85M-£5.37M-2,328.95N/A
PGOO
ProVen Growth & Income VCT
N/AGBX 46.70
flat
N/AN/A£150.34M-£4.92M-2,457.89N/A
BASC
Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,305
+0.8%
N/A+1.6%£149.84M£11.17M1,475.58N/A
NUC
Nucleus Financial Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£147.31M£51.81M46.71356
BRNA
BlackRock North American Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£147.22M£39.61M4.02N/A
DUKE
Duke Capital
2.0412 of 5 stars
GBX 29
flat
GBX 46
+58.6%
-9.8%£145.64M£6.40M6,444.44N/A
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000

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