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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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ESO vs. AUGM, AEI, TV1, IVI, TIGT, PVN, JUS, ASIT, JARA, and BSC

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), ProVen VCT (PVN), Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), and British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs. Its Competitors

EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) and Augmentum Fintech (LON:AUGM) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and dividends.

EPE Special Opportunities received 61 more outperform votes than Augmentum Fintech when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.67% of users gave Augmentum Fintech an outperform vote while only 67.97% of users gave EPE Special Opportunities an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
EPE Special OpportunitiesOutperform Votes
104
67.97%
Underperform Votes
49
32.03%
Augmentum FintechOutperform Votes
43
71.67%
Underperform Votes
17
28.33%

Augmentum Fintech has a net margin of 956.37% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Augmentum Fintech's return on equity of 62.05% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
EPE Special Opportunities-10.57% -0.41% 0.41%
Augmentum Fintech 956.37%62.05%N/A

13.6% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.5% of Augmentum Fintech shares are held by institutional investors. 53.1% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Augmentum Fintech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
EPE Special Opportunities£3.75M11.63£12.80M-£0.01-15,400.00
Augmentum Fintech£18.62M8.91£178.09M£104.950.94

In the previous week, Augmentum Fintech had 1 more articles in the media than EPE Special Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Augmentum Fintech and 0 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities. EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Augmentum Fintech'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
EPE Special Opportunities Neutral
Augmentum Fintech Neutral

Summary

Augmentum Fintech beats EPE Special Opportunities on 9 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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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£43.63M£1.22B£5.70B£2.93B
Dividend YieldN/A4.34%4.13%4.90%
P/E Ratio-15,400.0021.5212.72125.70
Price / Sales11.632,397.641,714.57243,028.71
Price / Cash1.7960.8149.9228.07
Price / Book0.481.173.184.76
Net Income£12.80M£264.77M£1.23B£5.91B
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.89%1.07%13.21%
1 Month Performance3.01%18.19%10.26%16.80%
1 Year Performance-10.98%5.11%14.68%78.27%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 154
+2.0%
N/A-13.3%£43.63M£3.75M-15,400.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
AUGM
Augmentum Fintech
N/AGBX 100
-1.0%
N/A-5.1%£168.53M£18.62M0.95N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
AEI
abrdn Equity Income Trust
N/AGBX 350
+0.6%
N/A+16.7%£166.98M£3.37M-755.0830
TV1
Thames Ventures VCT 1
N/AGBX 94.50
flat
N/AN/A£163.22M-£3.64M-2,362.50N/A
IVI
Invesco Income Growth Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£162.22M-£28.62M-5.42N/A
TIGT
Troy Income & Growth
N/AN/AN/AN/A£162.08M-£7.86M-2,320.00N/AGap Down
PVN
ProVen VCT
N/AGBX 59.50
flat
N/AN/A£161.87M£14.11M17.11N/AEarnings 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
JARA
JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets
N/AGBX 77
+1.9%
N/A+0.8%£157.71M-£2.67M-34.80N/A
BSC
British Smaller Companies VCT2
N/AGBX 52
flat
N/AN/A£155.57M£10.71M22.91N/A

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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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