BLND vs. LMP, UTG, LAND, BBOX, SHC, DLN, BYG, IWG, GRI, and SAFE
Should you be buying British Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Land include LondonMetric Property (LMP), Unite Group (UTG), Land Securities Group (LAND), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Derwent London (DLN), Big Yellow Group (BYG), IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), and Safestore (SAFE). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
British Land (LON:BLND) and LondonMetric Property (LON:LMP) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
70.5% of British Land shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.8% of LondonMetric Property shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of British Land shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of LondonMetric Property shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LondonMetric Property has a net margin of -124.25% compared to British Land's net margin of -160.93%. LondonMetric Property's return on equity of -8.19% beat British Land's return on equity.
British Land has a beta of 1.53, suggesting that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LondonMetric Property has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
British Land received 178 more outperform votes than LondonMetric Property when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.89% of users gave British Land an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave LondonMetric Property an outperform vote.
British Land currently has a consensus target price of GBX 382.25, indicating a potential downside of 4.34%. LondonMetric Property has a consensus target price of GBX 229.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.29%. Given LondonMetric Property's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LondonMetric Property is more favorable than British Land.
British Land pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. LondonMetric Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. British Land pays out -2,017.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LondonMetric Property pays out -5,263.2% 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.
LondonMetric Property has lower revenue, but higher earnings than British Land. LondonMetric Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, British Land had 4 more articles in the media than LondonMetric Property. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for British Land and 1 mentions for LondonMetric Property. British Land's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat LondonMetric Property's score of 0.00 indicating that British Land is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
British Land beats LondonMetric Property on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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