Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (LON:ASL) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (LON:ASL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday. The company reported GBX 64.02 earnings per share for the quarter, Digital Look Earnings reports. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust had a return on equity of 18.22% and a net margin of 112.81%.

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Trading Up 0.2%

ASL traded up GBX 4 during trading on Friday, hitting GBX 1,680. The stock had a trading volume of 73,415 shares, compared to its average volume of 155,050. The firm has a market cap of £1.34 billion, a PE ratio of 21.07 and a beta of 1.38. Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust has a 12 month low of GBX 1,162 and a 12 month high of GBX 1,692.66. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of GBX 1,579.55 and a 200-day simple moving average of GBX 1,548.08.

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Company Profile

Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust Plc is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Aberforth Partners LLP. The fund invests in public equity markets of the United Kingdom. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in value stocks of small-cap companies. It employs fundamental analysis with both bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches with the focus on factors like businesses financial statements and assessment of their market positions to create its portfolio.