ESP vs. PRSR, SOHO, BCPT, THRL, SHED, HWG, MTVW, LOK, IHR, and PCTN
Should you be buying Empiric Student Property stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empiric Student Property include Prs Reit (PRSR), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Balanced Commercial Property Trust (BCPT), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Harworth Group (HWG), Mountview Estates (MTVW), Lok'nStore Group (LOK), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), and Picton Property Income (PCTN). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) and Prs Reit (LON:PRSR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Prs Reit has a net margin of 85.41% compared to Empiric Student Property's net margin of 66.33%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.44% beat Prs Reit's return on equity.
Empiric Student Property has higher revenue and earnings than Prs Reit. Prs Reit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empiric Student Property, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Prs Reit has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Empiric Student Property received 83 more outperform votes than Prs Reit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 49.70% of users gave Prs Reit an outperform vote.
Prs Reit has a consensus target price of GBX 114, suggesting a potential upside of 41.97%. Given Prs Reit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Prs Reit is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.
In the previous week, Prs Reit had 1 more articles in the media than Empiric Student Property. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Prs Reit and 0 mentions for Empiric Student Property. Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Prs Reit'saverage media sentiment score.
Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Prs Reit pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Empiric Student Property pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prs Reit pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
74.5% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Prs Reit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Prs Reit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Empiric Student Property beats Prs Reit on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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