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B&M European Value Retail (BME) Competitors

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GBX 220.10 -1.40 (-0.63%)
As of 10/16/2025 12:06 PM Eastern

BME vs. UTG, ETO, GLO, PFD, BRW, BOE, TRY, USA, NUM, and JPS

Should you be buying B&M European Value Retail stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B&M European Value Retail include Unite Group (UTG), Entertainment One (ETO), ContourGlobal (GLO), Premier Foods (PFD), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Boeing (BOE), TR Property Investment Trust (TRY), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Numis (NUM), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L) (JPS). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

B&M European Value Retail vs. Its Competitors

B&M European Value Retail (LON:BME) and Unite Group (LON:UTG) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.

B&M European Value Retail has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unite Group has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

B&M European Value Retail currently has a consensus target price of GBX 364.44, indicating a potential upside of 65.58%. Unite Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,205, indicating a potential upside of 107.36%. Given Unite Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Unite Group is more favorable than B&M European Value Retail.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
B&M European Value Retail
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
12 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.63
Unite Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Unite Group has a net margin of 79.68% compared to B&M European Value Retail's net margin of 5.81%. B&M European Value Retail's return on equity of 43.85% beat Unite Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
B&M European Value Retail5.81% 43.85% 10.58%
Unite Group 79.68%6.45%2.50%

B&M European Value Retail has higher revenue and earnings than Unite Group. B&M European Value Retail is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Unite Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
B&M European Value Retail£5.57B0.40£422.41M£0.32692.15
Unite Group£321.50M8.84£299.23M£0.70834.94

B&M European Value Retail pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Unite Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. B&M European Value Retail pays out 46.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unite Group pays out 53.6% 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. B&M European Value Retail is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, B&M European Value Retail had 8 more articles in the media than Unite Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for B&M European Value Retail and 7 mentions for Unite Group. Unite Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat B&M European Value Retail's score of 0.61 indicating that Unite Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
B&M European Value Retail
4 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Unite Group
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

68.8% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Unite Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.8% of B&M European Value Retail shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Unite Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

B&M European Value Retail beats Unite Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BME vs. The Competition

MetricB&M European Value RetailDiscount Stores IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.21B£26.07B£7.45B£2.58B
Dividend Yield6.57%2.07%3.24%5.32%
P/E Ratio692.15113.521,100.064,414.48
Price / Sales0.4023.591,011,604.43100,817.42
Price / Cash18.38179.92144.7427.90
Price / Book2.2221.299.028.24
Net Income£422.41M£752.08M£1.01B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-4.32%0.16%0.40%0.36%
1 Month Performance-12.62%-28.05%-2.05%2.38%
1 Year Performance-46.19%-20.34%179.82%140.78%

B&M European Value Retail Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BME
B&M European Value Retail
4.2836 of 5 stars
GBX 220.11
-0.6%
GBX 364.44
+65.6%
-46.0%£2.21B£5.57B692.1539,484High Trading Volume
UTG
Unite Group
3.6284 of 5 stars
GBX 604.50
+0.5%
GBX 1,205
+99.3%
-37.9%£2.96B£321.50M868.531,801
ETO
Entertainment One
N/AN/AN/AN/A£2.78B£928.60M-123.781,259
GLO
ContourGlobal
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£2.57B1,091.301,518High Trading Volume
PFD
Premier Foods
N/AGBX 181.60
flat
GBX 255
+40.4%
-4.1%£1.56B£1.15B1,287.944,000Gap Down
BRW
Brewin Dolphin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.56B£415.46M3,029.412,186
BOE
Boeing
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.32B£70.54B-30.77156,000Gap Up
TRY
TR Property Investment Trust
N/AGBX 318
-0.3%
N/A-6.8%£1.01B-£19.36M-3,676.3026Positive News
USA
Baillie Gifford US Growth
N/AGBX 263.50
-0.6%
N/A+29.4%£730.82M£136.67M561.00N/A
NUM
Numis
N/AN/AN/AN/A£377.30M£130.31M17,150.00220
JPS
JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income plc (JPS.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£305.80M-£1.02M-48.36N/A

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This page (LON:BME) was last updated on 10/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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