ESO vs. MINI, ASTO, BSRT, RMMC, LIV, JEMA, CBA, CLC, BRIG, and MIG3
Should you be buying EPE Special Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EPE Special Opportunities include Miton UK Microcap (MINI), AssetCo (ASTO), Baker Steel Resources (BSRT), River and Mercantile UK Micro Cap (RMMC), Livermore Investments (LIV), JPMorgan Emerging Europe Middle East & Africa Securities (JEMA), Ceiba Investments (CBA), Calculus VCT (CLC), BlackRock Income and Growth (BRIG), and Maven Income and Growth VCT 3 (MIG3). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Miton UK Microcap (LON:MINI) and EPE Special Opportunities (LON:ESO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Miton UK Microcap had 3 more articles in the media than EPE Special Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Miton UK Microcap and 0 mentions for EPE Special Opportunities. EPE Special Opportunities' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Miton UK Microcap's score of 0.00 indicating that Miton UK Microcap is being referred to more favorably in the media.
EPE Special Opportunities received 32 more outperform votes than Miton UK Microcap when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.57% of users gave Miton UK Microcap an outperform vote while only 67.97% of users gave EPE Special Opportunities an outperform vote.
46.1% of Miton UK Microcap shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.6% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of Miton UK Microcap shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 53.3% of EPE Special Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EPE Special Opportunities has a net margin of 75.25% compared to EPE Special Opportunities' net margin of 0.00%. Miton UK Microcap's return on equity of 14.71% beat EPE Special Opportunities' return on equity.
EPE Special Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Miton UK Microcap. Miton UK Microcap 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.
Summary
EPE Special Opportunities beats Miton UK Microcap on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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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