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EPE Special Opportunities (ESO) Competitors

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(As of 12/6/2024 ET)

ESO vs. AUGM, MTU, OIG, TV1, IGC, IVI, TIGT, MMIT, PVN, and JUS

Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Augmentum Fintech (AUGM), Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), India Capital Growth (IGC), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), ProVen VCT (PVN), and Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

EPE Special Opportunities vs.

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

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

EPE Special Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Augmentum Fintech. 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
Augmentum FintechN/AN/AN/A£0.033,350.00
EPE Special Opportunities£3.75M11.41£12.80M-£0.01-15,100.00

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

In the previous week, Augmentum Fintech had 4 more articles in the media than EPE Special Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Augmentum Fintech and 1 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities. EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat Augmentum Fintech's score of 0.73 indicating that EPE Special Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Augmentum Fintech
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
EPE Special Opportunities
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Augmentum Fintech has a net margin of 0.00% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of -10.57%. Augmentum Fintech's return on equity of 0.00% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.

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

Summary

Augmentum Fintech beats EPE Special Opportunities on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ESO vs. The Competition

MetricEPE Special OpportunitiesAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£42.78M£886.38M£3.47B£1.51B
Dividend YieldN/A13.50%4.52%11.89%
P/E Ratio-15,100.00792.38431.331,624.46
Price / Sales11.4113,564.242,261.54275,749.15
Price / Cash1.7956.7746.2627.04
Price / Book0.471.631.432.82
Net Income£12.80M£58.73M£408.52M£159.46M
7 Day Performance-2.58%12.66%8.01%9.48%
1 Month Performance-4.43%13.84%10.90%10.42%
1 Year Performance-7.08%11.43%17.37%21.62%

EPE Special Opportunities Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESO
EPE Special Opportunities
N/AGBX 151
+1.0%
N/A-7.7%£42.78M£3.75M-15,100.00N/APositive News
AUGM
Augmentum Fintech
N/AGBX 99
+1.4%
N/A-1.3%£168.89MN/A3,300.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
MTU
Montanaro UK Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 100.50
flat
N/A+7.9%£168.22M£20.32M909.42N/ANews Coverage
OIG
Oryx International Growth Fund
N/AGBX 1,190
flat
N/A+1.0%£166.60M£29M661.11N/APositive News
TV1
Thames Ventures VCT 1
N/AGBX 95.50
flat
N/AN/A£164.95M£-3,640,000.00-1,015.00N/A
IGC
India Capital Growth
N/AN/AN/A+13.9%£163.66M£40.31M471.6461
IVI
Invesco Income Growth Trust
N/AGBX 278
+1.5%
N/A+0.0%£162.22M£-28,622,000.00-5.42N/A
TIGT
Troy Income & Growth
N/AGBX 69.60
-5.4%
N/AN/A£162.08M£-7,860,000.00-2,320.00N/AGap Down
MMIT
Mobius Investment Trust
N/AGBX 139.50
+1.1%
N/A+6.8%£161.01M£17.24M1,125.00N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down
PVN
ProVen VCT
N/AGBX 60
flat
N/A+2.6%£160.48M£12.40M2,000.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
JUS
Jupiter US Smaller Companies
N/AGBX 1,335
-1.7%
N/AN/A£159.73M£-3,316,000.00-31.64N/AGap Down
High Trading Volume

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This page (LON:ESO) was last updated on 12/6/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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