BYG vs. SAFE, BBOX, UKCM, DLN, GRI, IWG, SHC, SVS, HMSO, and SRE
Should you be buying Big Yellow Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Yellow Group include Safestore (SAFE), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Derwent London (DLN), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Savills (SVS), Hammerson (HMSO), and Sirius Real Estate (SRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Big Yellow Group (LON:BYG) and Safestore (LON:SAFE) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
79.8% of Big Yellow Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of Safestore shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Big Yellow Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Safestore shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Big Yellow Group has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safestore has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Safestore has higher revenue and earnings than Big Yellow Group. Safestore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Yellow Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Big Yellow Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Safestore pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Big Yellow Group pays out 4,554.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Safestore pays out 3,370.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Big Yellow Group has a net margin of 96.04% compared to Safestore's net margin of 89.29%. Safestore's return on equity of 10.74% beat Big Yellow Group's return on equity.
Safestore received 312 more outperform votes than Big Yellow Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.78% of users gave Safestore an outperform vote while only 55.57% of users gave Big Yellow Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Big Yellow Group and Big Yellow Group both had 2 articles in the media. Big Yellow Group's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Safestore's score of 0.00 indicating that Big Yellow Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Big Yellow Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,202, indicating a potential upside of 8.68%. Given Big Yellow Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Big Yellow Group is more favorable than Safestore.
Summary
Big Yellow Group beats Safestore on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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