BLND vs. LMP, UTG, LAND, BBOX, SHC, DLN, BYG, GRI, IWG, and SAFE
Should you be buying British Land stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of British Land include LondonMetric Property (LMP), Unite Group (UTG), Land Securities Group (LAND), Tritax Big Box (BBOX), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), Derwent London (DLN), Big Yellow Group (BYG), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), and Safestore (SAFE). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
LondonMetric Property (LON:LMP) and British Land (LON:BLND) are both mid-cap real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
LondonMetric Property presently has a consensus price target of GBX 229.50, suggesting a potential upside of 17.99%. British Land has a consensus price target of GBX 407.25, suggesting a potential upside of 7.11%. Given British Land's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe LondonMetric Property is more favorable than British Land.
LondonMetric Property has a net margin of -124.25% compared to LondonMetric Property's net margin of -160.93%. British Land's return on equity of -8.19% beat LondonMetric Property's return on equity.
LondonMetric Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. British Land pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. LondonMetric Property pays out -5,263.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. British Land pays out -2,017.5% 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.
In the previous week, British Land had 3 more articles in the media than LondonMetric Property. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for British Land and 1 mentions for LondonMetric Property. LondonMetric Property's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat British Land's score of 1.05 indicating that British Land is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LondonMetric Property has higher earnings, but lower revenue than British Land. LondonMetric Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than British Land, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
51.1% of LondonMetric Property shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.5% of British Land shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of LondonMetric Property shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of British Land shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
British Land received 178 more outperform votes than LondonMetric Property when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.95% of users gave British Land an outperform vote while only 56.51% of users gave LondonMetric Property an outperform vote.
LondonMetric Property has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, British Land has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
British Land beats LondonMetric Property on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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