SAFE vs. BYG, UKCM, BBOX, SHED, SVS, IWG, GRI, 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), Savills (SVS), IWG (IWG), Grainger (GRI), Hammerson (HMSO), Sirius Real Estate (SRE), and Primary Health Properties (PHP). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Big Yellow Group (LON:BYG) and Safestore (LON:SAFE) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Safestore had 2 more articles in the media than Big Yellow Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Safestore and 1 mentions for Big Yellow Group. Safestore's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Big Yellow Group's score of 0.20 indicating that Big Yellow Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Big Yellow Group has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Safestore has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Big Yellow Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,202, suggesting a potential upside of 7.71%. Given Safestore's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Big Yellow Group is more favorable than Safestore.
Big Yellow Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Safestore pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. 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. 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.
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.
Big Yellow Group has a net margin of 96.04% compared to Big Yellow Group's net margin of 89.29%. Big Yellow Group's return on equity of 10.74% beat Safestore's return on equity.
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.
79.8% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of Safestore shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.8% of Safestore shares are held by company 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.
Summary
Big Yellow Group beats Safestore on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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