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Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3) Competitors

GBX 46.50 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 05/19/2025

OAP3 vs. TEM, BHMG, JAM, RAT, FEV, PNL, MYI, WTAN, BRW, and JTC

Should you be buying Octopus Apollo VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus Apollo VCT include Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), BH Macro GBP (BHMG), JPMorgan American (JAM), Rathbones Group (RAT), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Personal Assets (PNL), Murray International (MYI), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), and JTC (JTC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Octopus Apollo VCT vs.

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (LON:TEM) and Octopus Apollo VCT (LON:OAP3) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust received 28 more outperform votes than Octopus Apollo VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.13% of users gave Octopus Apollo VCT an outperform vote while only 55.65% of users gave Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment TrustOutperform Votes
69
55.65%
Underperform Votes
55
44.35%
Octopus Apollo VCTOutperform Votes
41
66.13%
Underperform Votes
21
33.87%

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Apollo VCT. Octopus Apollo VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust£160.96M11.20£130.50M£12.4713.83
Octopus Apollo VCT£2.55M175.65-£5.76M-£0.60-77.64

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus Apollo VCT has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust has a net margin of 81.07% compared to Octopus Apollo VCT's net margin of -226.25%. Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust's return on equity of 7.07% beat Octopus Apollo VCT's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust81.07% 7.07% 4.50%
Octopus Apollo VCT -226.25%-1.19%-0.07%

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Octopus Apollo VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust pays out 48.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Octopus Apollo VCT pays out -500.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Octopus Apollo VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust and Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Octopus Apollo VCT's score of -1.29 indicating that Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust Very Positive
Octopus Apollo VCT Negative

71.1% of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Octopus Apollo VCT shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust beats Octopus Apollo VCT on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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OAP3 vs. The Competition

MetricOctopus Apollo VCTAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£447.28M£1.19B£5.31B£2.62B
Dividend Yield5.86%4.41%4.18%5.05%
P/E Ratio-77.6421.9312.83129.34
Price / Sales175.652,357.191,721.68221,585.85
Price / Cash4.3560.4649.7128.03
Price / Book0.881.151.353.79
Net Income-£5.76M£263.32M£1.22B£5.88B
7 Day Performance-3.13%0.12%0.53%0.62%
1 Month Performance-3.13%18.09%11.29%22.12%
1 Year Performance-4.32%2.19%13.09%120.96%

Octopus Apollo VCT Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
OAP3
Octopus Apollo VCT
N/AGBX 46.50
flat
N/AN/A£447.28M£2.55M-77.64N/ANegative News
Earnings Report
TEM
Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust
N/AGBX 174.60
-0.2%
N/A+6.7%£1.82B£160.96M14.00N/APositive News
BHMG
BH Macro GBP
N/AGBX 394.50
+0.1%
N/A+9.5%£1.82B£35.67M42.60N/A
JAM
JPMorgan American
N/AGBX 1,002
flat
N/A+1.5%£1.82B£431.16M4.34N/APositive News
RAT
Rathbones Group
2.8568 of 5 stars
GBX 1,612.46
-0.2%
GBX 2,087
+29.4%
-7.5%£1.68B£874.75M26.243,500Gap Up
FEV
Fidelity European Trust
N/AGBX 406
+0.5%
N/A+1.8%£1.67B£221.98M8.05N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
PNL
Personal Assets
N/AGBX 514
-0.2%
N/A+5.4%£1.64B£107.31M13.10N/A
MYI
Murray International
N/AGBX 275
flat
N/A+8.9%£1.64B£198.15M9.15N/ADividend Announcement
WTAN
Witan Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.58B£246.38M738.896
BRW
Brewin Dolphin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.56B£415.46M3,029.412,186
JTC
JTC
2.6601 of 5 stars
GBX 911.83
-0.3%
GBX 1,400
+53.5%
-5.2%£1.53B£291.42M51.141,603Gap Down

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