GPE vs. WKP, CLI, DLN, SUPR, UKCM, AGR, PHP, SRE, HMSO, and ESP
Should you be buying Great Portland Estates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Portland Estates include Workspace Group (WKP), CLS (CLI), Derwent London (DLN), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Assura (AGR), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Hammerson (HMSO), and Empiric Student Property (ESP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Great Portland Estates (LON:GPE) and Workspace Group (LON:WKP) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and community ranking.
Workspace Group has higher revenue and earnings than Great Portland Estates. Workspace Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Great Portland Estates, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Portland Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Workspace Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Great Portland Estates pays out -992.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Workspace Group pays out -2,241.4% 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. Workspace Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Great Portland Estates has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Workspace Group's net margin of -121.30%. Workspace Group's return on equity of -12.71% beat Great Portland Estates' return on equity.
Great Portland Estates has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workspace Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Workspace Group received 533 more outperform votes than Great Portland Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.23% of users gave Workspace Group an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Great Portland Estates an outperform vote.
78.5% of Great Portland Estates shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Workspace Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Great Portland Estates shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Workspace Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Great Portland Estates presently has a consensus target price of GBX 476.50, suggesting a potential upside of 20.33%. Workspace Group has a consensus target price of GBX 671.80, suggesting a potential upside of 28.21%. Given Workspace Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Workspace Group is more favorable than Great Portland Estates.
In the previous week, Workspace Group had 1 more articles in the media than Great Portland Estates. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Workspace Group and 3 mentions for Great Portland Estates. Great Portland Estates' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Workspace Group's score of 0.25 indicating that Great Portland Estates is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Workspace Group beats Great Portland Estates on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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