UKCM vs. SHED, WHR, SAFE, BYG, BBOX, SUPR, WKP, GPE, ESP, and BCPT
Should you be buying UK Commercial Property REIT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UK Commercial Property REIT include Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Warehouse REIT (WHR), Safestore (SAFE), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), Workspace Group (WKP), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Empiric Student Property (ESP), and Balanced Commercial Property Trust (BCPT). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Urban Logistics REIT (LON:SHED) and UK Commercial Property REIT (LON:UKCM) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Urban Logistics REIT has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UK Commercial Property REIT has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500.
UK Commercial Property REIT has a net margin of 0.00% compared to UK Commercial Property REIT's net margin of -116.47%. UK Commercial Property REIT's return on equity of -8.33% beat Urban Logistics REIT's return on equity.
UK Commercial Property REIT received 12 more outperform votes than Urban Logistics REIT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.63% of users gave Urban Logistics REIT an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave UK Commercial Property REIT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, UK Commercial Property REIT had 3 more articles in the media than Urban Logistics REIT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for UK Commercial Property REIT and 0 mentions for Urban Logistics REIT. Urban Logistics REIT's average media sentiment score of 0.03 beat UK Commercial Property REIT's score of 0.00 indicating that UK Commercial Property REIT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Urban Logistics REIT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UK Commercial Property REIT. Urban Logistics REIT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UK Commercial Property REIT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Urban Logistics REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. UK Commercial Property REIT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Urban Logistics REIT pays out -5,714.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. UK Commercial Property REIT pays out -1,111.1% 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. Urban Logistics REIT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
92.4% of Urban Logistics REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of UK Commercial Property REIT shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.4% of Urban Logistics REIT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of UK Commercial Property REIT 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.
Urban Logistics REIT currently has a consensus target price of GBX 150, suggesting a potential upside of 24.58%. Given UK Commercial Property REIT's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Urban Logistics REIT is more favorable than UK Commercial Property REIT.
Summary
Urban Logistics REIT beats UK Commercial Property REIT on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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