WKP vs. GPE, CLI, DLN, SUPR, UKCM, AGR, PHP, SRE, BCPT, and ESP
Should you be buying Workspace Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Workspace Group include Great Portland Estates (GPE), CLS (CLI), Derwent London (DLN), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Assura (AGR), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Balanced Commercial Property Trust (BCPT), 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, 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.
Workspace Group received 532 more outperform votes than Great Portland Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.19% of users gave Workspace Group an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Great Portland Estates an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Great Portland Estates had 2 more articles in the media than Workspace Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Great Portland Estates and 1 mentions for Workspace Group. Workspace Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Great Portland Estates'average media sentiment score.
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 5.1%. 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 beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Workspace Group has a beta of 1.05, suggesting that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.3% 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 company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Workspace Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Great Portland Estates has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Great Portland Estates' net margin of -121.30%. Great Portland Estates' return on equity of -12.71% beat Workspace Group's return on equity.
Great Portland Estates currently has a consensus price target of GBX 476.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.02%. Workspace Group has a consensus price target of GBX 691, indicating a potential upside of 36.56%. Given Great Portland Estates' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Workspace Group is more favorable than Great Portland Estates.
Summary
Workspace Group beats Great Portland Estates on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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