HMSO vs. SHC, SRE, PHP, AGR, SVS, SAFE, GPE, WKP, SUPR, and UKCM
Should you be buying Hammerson stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hammerson include Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), Primary Health Properties (PHP), Assura (AGR), Savills (SVS), Safestore (SAFE), Great Portland Estates (GPE), Workspace Group (WKP), Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), and UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Shaftesbury Capital (LON:SHC) and Hammerson (LON:HMSO) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Hammerson received 529 more outperform votes than Shaftesbury Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Shaftesbury Capital an outperform vote while only 57.58% of users gave Hammerson an outperform vote.
Shaftesbury Capital presently has a consensus target price of GBX 154.50, indicating a potential upside of 11.79%. Hammerson has a consensus target price of GBX 34, indicating a potential upside of 22.04%. Given Shaftesbury Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hammerson is more favorable than Shaftesbury Capital.
Shaftesbury Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Hammerson pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Shaftesbury Capital pays out 666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hammerson pays out -20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hammerson is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Shaftesbury Capital has a net margin of 378.99% compared to Shaftesbury Capital's net margin of -21.30%. Hammerson's return on equity of 29.77% beat Shaftesbury Capital's return on equity.
Shaftesbury Capital has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hammerson has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hammerson had 1 more articles in the media than Shaftesbury Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Hammerson and 0 mentions for Shaftesbury Capital. Shaftesbury Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Hammerson's score of 0.00 indicating that Hammerson is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.2% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.3% of Hammerson shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Shaftesbury Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.1% of Hammerson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Shaftesbury Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hammerson. Hammerson is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shaftesbury Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hammerson beats Shaftesbury Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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