SAFE vs. BYG, UKCM, BBOX, SHED, GRI, IWG, SVS, HMSO, SRE, and PHP
Should you be buying Safestore stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Safestore include Big Yellow Group (BYG), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Tritax Big Box REIT (BBOX), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), Savills (SVS), Hammerson (HMSO), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), and Primary Health Properties (PHP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Safestore (LON:SAFE) and Big Yellow Group (LON:BYG) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and community ranking.
Safestore pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Big Yellow Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Safestore pays out 3,370.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Big Yellow Group pays out 4,554.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Big Yellow Group has a net margin of 96.04% compared to Safestore's net margin of 89.29%. Safestore's return on equity of 10.74% beat Big Yellow Group's return on equity.
Safestore received 312 more outperform votes than Big Yellow Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.78% of users gave Safestore an outperform vote while only 55.57% of users gave Big Yellow Group an outperform vote.
Safestore has higher revenue and earnings than Big Yellow Group. Safestore is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Big Yellow Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Big Yellow Group has a consensus price target of GBX 1,202, suggesting a potential upside of 1.52%. Given Big Yellow Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Big Yellow Group is more favorable than Safestore.
In the previous week, Big Yellow Group had 1 more articles in the media than Safestore. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Big Yellow Group and 1 mentions for Safestore. Safestore's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Big Yellow Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Safestore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safestore has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big Yellow Group has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
79.6% of Safestore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.3% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Safestore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Safestore beats Big Yellow Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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