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Empiric Student Property (ESP) Competitors

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GBX 98.70 +0.10 (+0.10%)
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ESP vs. SPI, RTN, IPF, APH, SGM, MSI, MCP, BERI, AMAT, and STM

Should you be buying Empiric Student Property stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Empiric Student Property include Spire Healthcare Group (SPI), The Restaurant Group (RTN), International Personal Finance (IPF), Alliance Pharma (APH), Sigma Capital Group (SGM), MS INTERNATIONAL (MSI), Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust (MCP), BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), and STM Group (STM). These companies are all part of the "electronic equipment" industry.

Empiric Student Property vs. Its Competitors

Spire Healthcare Group (LON:SPI) and Empiric Student Property (LON:ESP) are both small-cap electronic equipment companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, risk and media sentiment.

Spire Healthcare Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Empiric Student Property pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Spire Healthcare Group pays out 42.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Empiric Student Property pays out 44.9% 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.

Spire Healthcare Group has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Empiric Student Property has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Spire Healthcare Group's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Empiric Student Property's score of 0.00 indicating that Spire Healthcare Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Spire Healthcare Group Positive
Empiric Student Property Neutral

Spire Healthcare Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 300, suggesting a potential upside of 32.45%. Given Spire Healthcare Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Spire Healthcare Group is more favorable than Empiric Student Property.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Spire Healthcare Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Empiric Student Property
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Empiric Student Property has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spire Healthcare Group. Empiric Student Property is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Spire Healthcare Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Spire Healthcare Group£1.44B0.63£28.15M£7.0332.24
Empiric Student Property£89.58M7.30£58.84M£8.9011.08

Empiric Student Property has a net margin of 65.69% compared to Spire Healthcare Group's net margin of 1.96%. Empiric Student Property's return on equity of 7.23% beat Spire Healthcare Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Spire Healthcare Group1.96% 3.82% 3.73%
Empiric Student Property 65.69%7.23%2.26%

50.4% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.4% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.7% of Spire Healthcare Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Empiric Student Property shares are owned 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

Spire Healthcare Group beats Empiric Student Property on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ESP vs. The Competition

MetricEmpiric Student PropertyREIT IndustryReal Estate SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£653.80M£1.46B£1.61B£3.06B
Dividend Yield4.27%3.83%6.26%5.02%
P/E Ratio11.084.3010.43163.07
Price / Sales7.30242.231,072.59299,001.16
Price / Cash9.72107.6866.7927.97
Price / Book0.800.711.334.70
Net Income£58.84M£64.85M-£120.13M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-0.30%0.27%0.45%0.29%
1 Month Performance-2.66%1.54%1.18%7.72%
1 Year Performance4.56%11.89%11.41%71.60%

Empiric Student Property Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESP
Empiric Student Property
N/AGBX 98.70
+0.1%
N/A+4.8%£653.80M£89.58M11.08150
SPI
Spire Healthcare Group
N/AGBX 220.50
-0.7%
GBX 300
+36.1%
-6.4%£885.46M£1.44B31.38420News Coverage
RTN
The Restaurant Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£499.23M£927M-1,080.0064,000
IPF
International Personal Finance
N/AGBX 177.40
+0.7%
N/A+35.6%£385.53M£695.42M8.596,230
APH
Alliance Pharma
2.1405 of 5 stars
GBX 64.70
flat
GBX 6,250
+9,560.0%
N/A£350.32M£183.50M-10.4391,000
SGM
Sigma Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£181.35M£10.60M54.5948,300
MSI
MS INTERNATIONAL
N/AGBX 1,120
+1.8%
N/A+3.4%£177.76M£107.14M15.61455
MCP
Martin Currie Asia Unconstrand Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£145.58M£6.14M43.1321,000
BERI
BlackRock Energy and Resources
N/AGBX 118.50
-0.4%
N/A+5.2%£140.55M£25.44M6.23N/ANews Coverage
Gap Down
AMAT
Amati AIM VCT
N/AGBX 62
flat
N/A-25.4%£91.02M-£5.65M-8.5233,000
STM
STM Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£35.53M£30.06M3,075.0048,300

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This page (LON:ESP) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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