SHC vs. HMSO, DLN, BBOX, BYG, GRI, IWG, SAFE, BLND, SVS, and LMP
Should you be buying Shaftesbury Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shaftesbury Capital include Hammerson (HMSO), Derwent London (DLN), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), Safestore (SAFE), British Land (BLND), Savills (SVS), and LondonMetric Property (LMP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Hammerson (LON:HMSO) and Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
Hammerson presently has a consensus target price of GBX 34, suggesting a potential upside of 18.47%. Shaftesbury Capital has a consensus target price of GBX 154.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.04%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Hammerson is more favorable than Shaftesbury Capital.
Hammerson received 529 more outperform votes than Shaftesbury Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Shaftesbury Capital an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Hammerson an outperform vote.
Hammerson pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Hammerson pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Shaftesbury Capital pays out 666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hammerson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Hammerson has a beta of 2.31, meaning that its share price is 131% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shaftesbury Capital has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Shaftesbury Capital has a net margin of 378.99% compared to Shaftesbury Capital's net margin of -21.30%. Hammerson's return on equity of 29.77% beat Shaftesbury Capital's return on equity.
60.9% of Hammerson shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.6% of Hammerson shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Hammerson and Hammerson both had 1 articles in the media. Hammerson's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Shaftesbury Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Shaftesbury Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Shaftesbury Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hammerson. Hammerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shaftesbury Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Shaftesbury Capital beats Hammerson on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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