BYG vs. SAFE, BBOX, UKCM, GRI, IWG, DLN, SVS, HMSO, SHC, and SRE
Should you be buying Big Yellow Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Big Yellow Group include Safestore (SAFE), Tritax Big Box (BBOX), UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM), Grainger (GRI), IWG (IWG), Derwent London (DLN), Savills (SVS), Hammerson (HMSO), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC), and Sirius Real Estate (SRE). These companies are all part of the "real estate" sector.
Safestore (LON:SAFE) and Big Yellow Group (LON:BYG) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
80.7% of Safestore shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.8% of Safestore shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of Big Yellow Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Safestore has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Big Yellow Group has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Safestore had 5 more articles in the media than Big Yellow Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Safestore and 1 mentions for Big Yellow Group. Big Yellow Group's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Safestore's score of 0.00 indicating that Safestore is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Safestore pays an annual dividend of GBX 30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Big Yellow Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. 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. 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.
Big Yellow Group has a consensus target price of GBX 1,202, indicating a potential upside of 14.04%. Given Safestore's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Big Yellow Group is more favorable than Safestore.
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.
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 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.
Summary
Safestore beats Big Yellow Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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