BLND vs. LMP, UTG, LAND, BBOX, SHC, DLN, BYG, GRI, IWG, and SAFE
Should you be buying British Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Land include LondonMetric Property (LMP), Unite Group (UTG), Land Securities Group (LAND), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Derwent London (DLN), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), and Safestore (SAFE). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
British Land (LON:BLND) and LondonMetric Property (LON:LMP) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
British Land currently has a consensus price target of GBX 407.25, indicating a potential upside of 4.96%. LondonMetric Property has a consensus price target of GBX 229.50, indicating a potential upside of 16.73%. Given LondonMetric Property's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LondonMetric Property is more favorable than British Land.
British Land received 178 more outperform votes than LondonMetric Property when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.95% of users gave British Land an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave LondonMetric Property an outperform vote.
In the previous week, British Land and British Land both had 1 articles in the media. British Land's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat LondonMetric Property's score of 0.00 indicating that British Land is being referred to more favorably in the media.
British Land has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LondonMetric Property has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
69.5% of British Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.1% of LondonMetric Property shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of British Land shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of LondonMetric Property shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
British Land pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. LondonMetric Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. British Land pays out -2,017.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LondonMetric Property pays out -5,263.2% 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.
LondonMetric Property has a net margin of -124.25% compared to British Land's net margin of -160.93%. LondonMetric Property's return on equity of -8.19% beat British Land's return on equity.
LondonMetric Property has lower revenue, but higher earnings than British Land. LondonMetric Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
British Land and LondonMetric Property tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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