AJOT vs. SLS, SEIT, BRSC, TRG, JEDT, JII, HSL, SOI, DGN, and GCP
Should you be buying AVI Japan Opportunity stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AVI Japan Opportunity include Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (SLS), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), The European Smaller Companies Trust (TRG), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), JPMorgan Indian (JII), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Schroder Oriental Income (SOI), Asia Dragon (DGN), and GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
AVI Japan Opportunity (LON:AJOT) and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust (LON:SLS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
56.6% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of AVI Japan Opportunity shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, AVI Japan Opportunity's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AVI Japan Opportunity, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust received 80 more outperform votes than AVI Japan Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users.
AVI Japan Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. AVI Japan Opportunity pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
AVI Japan Opportunity and Standard Life UK Smaller Companies Trust tied by winning 4 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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