Empiric Student Property (ESP) Competitors

Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) and Prs Reit (LON:PRSR) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Do analysts rate ESP or PRSR?

Prs Reit has a consensus price target of GBX 114, indicating a potential upside of 48.24%. Given Prs Reit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Prs Reit is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Empiric Student Property	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Prs Reit	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Is ESP or PRSR a better dividend stock?

Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Prs Reit pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. Empiric Student Property pays out 4,444.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prs Reit pays out 5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of ESP or PRSR?

71.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.1% of Prs Reit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Prs Reit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor ESP or PRSR?

Empiric Student Property received 83 more outperform votes than Prs Reit when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.80% of users gave Empiric Student Property an outperform vote while only 49.70% of users gave Prs Reit an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Empiric Student Property	Outperform Votes 167 66.80%	Underperform Votes 83 33.20%
Prs Reit	Outperform Votes 84 49.70%	Underperform Votes 85 50.30%

Does the media prefer ESP or PRSR?

In the previous week, Empiric Student Property's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Prs Reit'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Empiric Student Property	Neutral
Prs Reit	Neutral

Is ESP or PRSR more profitable?

Prs Reit has a net margin of 85.41% compared to Empiric Student Property's net margin of 66.33%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.44% beat Prs Reit's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Empiric Student Property	66.33%	7.44%	2.25%
Prs Reit	85.41%	6.54%	2.02%

Which has more volatility & risk, ESP or PRSR?

Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prs Reit has a beta of 0.49, meaning that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better earnings and valuation, ESP or PRSR?

Empiric Student Property has higher revenue and earnings than Prs Reit. Prs Reit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Empiric Student Property, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Empiric Student Property	£80.50M	6.75	£53.40M	£0.09	1,000.00
Prs Reit	£49.70M	8.50	£42.45M	£0.08	961.25

Summary

Empiric Student Property beats Prs Reit on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.