PHP vs. AGR, THRL, IHR, SRE, HMSO, GPE, WKP, SUPR, SVS, and UKCM
Should you be buying Primary Health Properties stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Primary Health Properties include Assura (AGR), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Impact Healthcare REIT (IHR), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Hammerson (HMSO), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Workspace Group (WKP), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Savills (SVS), and UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Assura (LON:AGR) and Primary Health Properties (LON:PHP) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.
88.8% of Assura shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.9% of Primary Health Properties shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Assura shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Primary Health Properties shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Primary Health Properties had 4 more articles in the media than Assura. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Primary Health Properties and 0 mentions for Assura. Assura's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Primary Health Properties' score of 0.00 indicating that Primary Health Properties is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Assura has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Primary Health Properties has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Assura pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Primary Health Properties pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Assura pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Primary Health Properties pays out 35,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Primary Health Properties has a net margin of 16.08% compared to Primary Health Properties' net margin of -110.03%. Assura's return on equity of 1.88% beat Primary Health Properties' return on equity.
Assura received 39 more outperform votes than Primary Health Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.34% of users gave Assura an outperform vote while only 62.03% of users gave Primary Health Properties an outperform vote.
Assura presently has a consensus target price of GBX 52, indicating a potential upside of 21.63%. Primary Health Properties has a consensus target price of GBX 102, indicating a potential upside of 6.03%. Given Primary Health Properties' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Assura is more favorable than Primary Health Properties.
Primary Health Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Assura. Assura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primary Health Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Primary Health Properties beats Assura on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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