BCPT vs. PCTN, API, SREI, AEWU, ESP, THRL, HWG, SHED, PRSR, and MTVW
Should you be buying Balanced Commercial Property Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Balanced Commercial Property Trust include Picton Property Income (PCTN), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (SREI), Aew Uk Reit (AEWU), Empiric Student Property (ESP), Target Healthcare REIT (THRL), Harworth Group (HWG), Urban Logistics REIT (SHED), Prs Reit (PRSR), and Mountview Estates (MTVW). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Picton Property Income (LON:PCTN) and Balanced Commercial Property Trust (LON:BCPT) are both small-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Picton Property Income received 124 more outperform votes than Balanced Commercial Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.13% of users gave Picton Property Income an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave Balanced Commercial Property Trust an outperform vote.
Balanced Commercial Property Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Balanced Commercial Property Trust's net margin of -150.52%. Balanced Commercial Property Trust's return on equity of -13.72% beat Picton Property Income's return on equity.
In the previous week, Balanced Commercial Property Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Picton Property Income. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Balanced Commercial Property Trust and 0 mentions for Picton Property Income. Balanced Commercial Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Picton Property Income's score of 0.00 indicating that Picton Property Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Picton Property Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Balanced Commercial Property Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Picton Property Income pays out -2,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Balanced Commercial Property Trust pays out -1,923.1% 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. Picton Property Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Picton Property Income has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balanced Commercial Property Trust has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
72.8% of Picton Property Income shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of Balanced Commercial Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Picton Property Income shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Balanced Commercial Property Trust shares are held 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.
Picton Property Income has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Balanced Commercial Property Trust. Picton Property Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Balanced Commercial Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Picton Property Income beats Balanced Commercial Property Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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