GPE vs. WKP, CLI, DLN, SUPR, UKCM, AGR, PHP, SRE, HMSO, and BCPT
Should you be buying Great Portland Estates stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Portland Estates include Workspace Group (WKP), CLS (CLI), Derwent London (DLN), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Assura (AGR), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Hammerson (HMSO), and Balanced Commercial Property Trust (BCPT). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Workspace Group (LON:WKP) and Great Portland Estates (LON:GPE) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and profitability.
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.
Workspace Group has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Portland Estates has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.7% of Workspace Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Great Portland Estates shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.0% of Workspace Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of Great Portland Estates shares are owned by 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.
Workspace Group received 533 more outperform votes than Great Portland Estates when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.23% of users gave Workspace Group an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave Great Portland Estates an outperform vote.
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.
In the previous week, Workspace Group and Workspace Group both had 3 articles in the media. Workspace Group's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Great Portland Estates' score of 0.00 indicating that Great Portland Estates is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Workspace Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 671.80, indicating a potential upside of 28.21%. Great Portland Estates has a consensus target price of GBX 476.50, indicating a potential upside of 20.33%. Given Great Portland Estates' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Workspace Group is more favorable than Great Portland Estates.
Workspace Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Great Portland Estates pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Workspace Group pays out -2,241.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Portland Estates pays out -992.4% 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.
Summary
Workspace Group beats Great Portland Estates on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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