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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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GBX 140.60 -3.40 (-2.36%)
As of 10/20/2025 06:14 AM Eastern

ESO vs. BBH, FTF, NUC, BRNA, MCP, BRSA, CRWN, IGC, GABI, and DUKE

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), Nucleus Financial Group (NUC), BlackRock North American Income Trust (BRNA), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA), Crown Place VCT (CRWN), India Capital Growth (IGC), GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI), and Duke Capital (DUKE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs. Its Competitors

EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) and Bellevue Healthcare (LON:BBH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and profitability.

9.8% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of Bellevue Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Bellevue Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Bellevue Healthcare has a net margin of 169.10% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity of -0.41% beat Bellevue Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
EPE Special Opportunities-10.57% -0.41% 0.41%
Bellevue Healthcare 169.10%-4.48%N/A

In the previous week, EPE Special Opportunities had 3 more articles in the media than Bellevue Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities and 0 mentions for Bellevue Healthcare. EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Bellevue Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that EPE Special Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
EPE Special Opportunities Very Positive
Bellevue Healthcare Neutral

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
EPE Special Opportunities-£5.88M-6.30£12.80M-£27.83-5.05
Bellevue Healthcare-£46.85M-3.25-£16.23M-£26.22-4.90

Summary

EPE Special Opportunities beats Bellevue Healthcare on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£37.01M£1.44B£4.83B£2.57B
Dividend YieldN/A4.72%4.41%5.38%
P/E Ratio-5.05157.9170.37493.42
Price / Sales-6.301,973.261,441.2398,772.65
Price / Cash1.7960.4648.9327.90
Price / Book0.431.353.508.07
Net Income£12.80M£264.59M£1.22B£5.89B
7 Day Performance1.88%-0.05%-0.31%-0.12%
1 Month Performance3.07%0.01%0.81%1.07%
1 Year Performance-8.89%8.01%38.64%126.15%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 140.60
-2.4%
N/A-8.1%£37.01M-£5.88M-5.05N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BBH
Bellevue Healthcare
N/AGBX 125.60
-1.3%
N/A-12.0%£148.90M-£46.85M-479.02N/A
FTF
Foresight Enterprise VCT
N/AGBX 46.80
flat
N/AN/A£148.25M£2.13M93.60N/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/APositive News
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
BRSA
BlackRock Sustainable American Income
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.23M£22.37M8.28N/A
CRWN
Crown Place VCT
N/AGBX 28
-2.4%
N/A-8.2%£145.18M£5.95M1,564.25N/APositive News
Earnings Report
Gap Down
IGC
India Capital Growth
N/AGBX 170
-0.6%
N/A-9.1%£144.94M-£6.98M-1,706.8361Positive News
GABI
GCP Asset Backed Income
N/AGBX 67
flat
N/A-13.4%£144.46M-£8.00M-2,803.35N/A
DUKE
Duke Capital
2.5338 of 5 stars
GBX 28
-0.7%
GBX 43.50
+55.4%
-15.4%£140.62M£6.40M6,222.22N/A

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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 10/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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